The study of material culture is concerned with the relationship between persons and things in the past and in the present, in urban and industrialized and in s
Material culture studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the relationships between people and their things: the production, history, preservation, a
Provides a critical survey of the theories, concepts, intellectual debates, substantive domains and traditions of study characterizing the analysis of things. T
Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook makes accessible a full range of theoretical and applied approaches to the study of material culture,
"The past has left a huge variety of traces in material form. If historians could figure out how to make use of them to create accounts of the past, a far great