Decorative arts

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to the ways that actors create meaning and value in commodity brands and branding through processes of geographical association.

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to the ways that actors create meaning and value in commodity brands and branding through processes of geographical association.

A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the maintenance and sustaining of material worlds Argues that the interrelationship of humans and things is a defining characteristic of human history and culture Offers a nuanced argument that values the physical processes of things without succumbing to materialism Discusses historical and modern examples, using evolutionary theory to show how long-standing entanglements are irreversible and increase in scale and complexity over time Integrates aspects of a diverse array of contemporary theories in archaeology and related natural and biological sciences Provides a critical review of many of the key contemporary perspectives from materiality, material culture studies and phenomenology to evolutionary theory, behavioral archaeology, cognitive archaeology, human behavioral ecology, Actor Network Theory and complexity theory

A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the maintenance and sustaining of material worlds Argues that the interrelationship of humans and things is a defining characteristic of human history and culture Offers a nuanced argument that values the physical processes of things without succumbing to materialism Discusses historical and modern examples, using evolutionary theory to show how long-standing entanglements are irreversible and increase in scale and complexity over time Integrates aspects of a diverse array of contemporary theories in archaeology and related natural and biological sciences Provides a critical review of many of the key contemporary perspectives from materiality, material culture studies and phenomenology to evolutionary theory, behavioral archaeology, cognitive archaeology, human behavioral ecology, Actor Network Theory and complexity theory

Uses the idea of the box in early modern England to develop a new direction in book history and material culture.

Uses the idea of the box in early modern England to develop a new direction in book history and material culture.

This Element shows how costume books and albums helped to shape a new visual culture in the early modern period.

This Element shows how costume books and albums helped to shape a new visual culture in the early modern period.

Offers a broad and vivid overview of the culture of collecting in France over the long nineteenth-century.

Offers a broad and vivid overview of the culture of collecting in France over the long nineteenth-century.

Applies the ''life history'' of objects approach to China''s prehistoric, early dynastic and more recent material culture.

Presents a new approach to heritage formation in Asia, conveying the power of the material remains of the past.

Applies the ''life history'' of objects approach to China''s prehistoric, early dynastic and more recent material culture.

Presents a new approach to heritage formation in Asia, conveying the power of the material remains of the past.

Examines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

This book explores the nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age through developments in pottery, textiles, and metalwork.

This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.

This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.

The Matter of History links the history of people with the history of things through a bold new materialist theory of the past.

The Matter of History links the history of people with the history of things through a bold new materialist theory of the past.

Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.

This book is a comprehensive and in-depth study of a mysterious state of China''s Warring States Period (476–221 BCE): the Zhongshan.

This book is a comprehensive and in-depth study of a mysterious state of China''s Warring States Period (476–221 BCE): the Zhongshan.

An exciting look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and how it can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience.

An exciting look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and how it can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience.

A comprehensive study of material objects associated with the Jacobites, produced, acquired and treasured in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

A comprehensive study of material objects associated with the Jacobites, produced, acquired and treasured in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

This book examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history.

This book examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history.

Examines the objects and artifacts, the representations in art, and the examples of documentation that reveal the day-to-day life of ancient Egyptians.

Examines the objects and artifacts, the representations in art, and the examples of documentation that reveal the day-to-day life of ancient Egyptians.

This book presents the first comprehensive overview of the Black Sea region in the prehistoric period.

This book presents the first comprehensive overview of the Black Sea region in the prehistoric period.

This Element studies Renaissance material cultures through the literary prism of fairy-tale objects.

This Element studies Renaissance material cultures through the literary prism of fairy-tale objects.

This book offers novel viewpoints and material on Byzantine and Italian arts from a comparative perspective.

This book offers novel viewpoints and material on Byzantine and Italian arts from a comparative perspective.

A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance ItalyIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of goods from Portuguese trading voyagesfruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people.

A manual of witchcraft to bring out your inner witch, including spells and tools to tap into your creativity and fashion your own magickal practice.

We have taken on the challenge of asking AI (an artificial intelligence machine) uncomfortable questions and seeking answers that are both honest and insightful.

Unsere Gesellschaft spaltet sich: am einen Ende stehen Rechtspopulisten, am anderen "woke" Moralisten.

Shodo Harada is internationally recognized both as a Zen teacher and as a world-class master of the fine art of Zen calligraphy.

Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway.

From clothing to the painted and scarified nude body, through overt, public display or esoteric symbols known only to the initiated, dress can convey information about beliefs, faith, identity, power, agency, resistance, and fashion.

Luxury has been both celebrated and condemned throughout history right up to the present day.

Luxury has been both celebrated and condemned throughout history right up to the present day.

Less than three decades ago, when the Chinese bought cloth or clothes, they would have had to use a government-issued coupon.

In recent years, food waste has risen to the top of the political and public agenda, yet until now there has been no scholarly analysis applied to the topic as a complement and counter-balance to campaigning and activist approaches.

Nominated for the 2016 Art in Literature: Mary Lynn Kotz Award, Library of Virginia

Owing to digitization, globalization and mass culture, what is deemed 'desirable' and 'of the moment' in art has increasingly followed the patterns of fashion.