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Serie: Materializing culture
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Engels20249780367653323
4-10-2024
This book explores the attribution and local negotiation of cultural valuations of artistic and art-institutional practices around the world, and considers the diverse ways in which these value attributions intersect with claims of universality and cosmopolitanism. Meer
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Engels20219780367628512
28-4-2021
Drawing on ethnographic research at the British seaside, this book offers an original and insightful anthropological contribution to the study of contemporary Britain and nationalism. Meer
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Engels20239780367628574
9-1-2023
Drawing on ethnographic research at the British seaside, this book offers an original and insightful anthropological contribution to the study of contemporary Britain and nationalism. Meer
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Engels20239780367653279
30-3-2023
This book explores the attribution and local negotiation of cultural valuations of artistic and art-institutional practices around the world, and considers the diverse ways in which these value attributions intersect with claims of universality and cosmopolitanism. Meer
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Engels20249780367655655
28-11-2024
The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have with them. Meer
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Engels20239780367655570
31-7-2023
The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have with them. Meer
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Engels20139780857854506
7-11-2013
The study of material culture demonstrates that objects make people just as much as people make, exchange and consume objects. But what if these objects are, in the eyes of others, only fakes? Meer
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Engels20139780857854513
7-11-2013
The study of material culture demonstrates that objects make people just as much as people make, exchange and consume objects. But what if these objects are, in the eyes of others, only fakes? Meer
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Engels20099781847884954
1-10-2009
Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the person. Meer
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Engels20009781859733332
1-10-2000
At the turn of the 20th Century, Japanese ‘villages' and their exotic occupants delighted and mystified visitors to the Great Exhibitions and Worlds' Fairs . Meer
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Engels20009781859733066
1-3-2000
Thailand has become well known throughout the world for wonderful cuisine, great package holidays, sumptuous temples and textiles. Noticeably absent from glossy tourist brochures but equally well known throughout the Western world is Thailand's seedier side - the world of child exploitation, rampant prostitution and AIDS. Meer
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Engels20009781859733110
1-3-2000
Thailand has become well known throughout the world for wonderful cuisine, great package holidays, sumptuous temples and textiles. Noticeably absent from glossy tourist brochures but equally well known throughout the Western world is Thailand's seedier side - the world of child exploitation, rampant prostitution and AIDS. Meer
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Engels19989781859739235
1-4-1998
The passionate response of the British public to the Newbury Bypass is a revealing measure of how strongly people feel about trees and the environment. Meer
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Engels19989781859739280
1-4-1998
The passionate response of the British public to the Newbury Bypass is a revealing measure of how strongly people feel about trees and the environment. Meer
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Engels20019781859734124
1-3-2001
Anyone who assumes that a car is simply a means to get from point A to point B, or who even thinks that they know what a car is, should read this book. Meer
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Engels20029781859735565
1-7-2002
New technologies are profoundly reshaping the world around us. Home computers - unheard of two decades ago - now play an intimate role as personal possessions in many people's lives. Meer
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Engels20029781859735619
1-7-2002
New technologies are profoundly reshaping the world around us. Home computers - unheard of two decades ago - now play an intimate role as personal possessions in many people's lives. Meer
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Engels20029781859736227
1-11-2002
Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folkore Award 2003 Malanggan are among the most treasured possessions in the Pacific, yet they continue to confound anthropologists. Meer
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Engels19999781859732120
1-2-1999
This highly original case study, which adopts a material culture perspective, is unprecedented in social and cultural histories of the Soviet period and provides a unique window on social relations. Meer
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Engels20049781859738672
1-4-2004
Egypt looms large in the Western imagination. Whether it is our attraction to pharaonic art, the pyramids or practices of mummification, Egypts unique understanding of materiality speaks to us across space and time. Meer