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The Fashion Doll
Bloomsbury Publishing 2004; US$ 109.95Feminists have argued that the Barbie doll perpetuates unrealistic standards of feminine beauty and undermines the credibility of women - that her long, slender plastic limbs and tiny waist fetishize the female body in unnatural ways and that her mature, overtly fashionable image promotes consumerism and superficiality over and above womens liberty... more...
Built to Meet Needs: Cultural Issues in Vernacular Architecture
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 75.00The study of vernacular architecture explores the characteristics of domestic buildings in particular regions or localities, and the many social and cultural factors that have contributed to their evolution. In this book, vernacular architecture specialist Paul Oliver brings together a wealth of information that spans over two decades, and the whole... more...
From the Frontier
Allen & Unwin 2000; US$ 36.35A collection of lively letters which provide insights into, and details of, race relations, social history, and the dawn of anthropological and biological interest in central Australia. A century later they reveal to us a fascinating view of Australia's past. more...
Recipes for Immortality
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 73.99Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immorality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in which siddha medical practitioners in Tamil South India win the trust and patronage of patients. While biomedicine might alleviate a patient's... more...
Doing Things with Things
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 130.00In this book, contributors from across the social sciences focus on everyday objects and how these objects enter our activities over the course of time. Using a combination of different theoretical approaches, the book argues against the standard notion of objects and their properties as inert and meaningless, and for the need to understand the relations... more...
Catawba Indian Pottery
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 34.95A comprehensive study that traces the craft of pottery making among the Catawba Indians of North Carolina from the late 18th century to the present. When Europeans encountered them, the Catawba Indians were living along the river and throughout the valley that carries their name near the present North Carolina-South Carolina border. Archaeologists... more...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 149.95This Research Companion brings together a team of leading experts to provide a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the key aspects of heritage and identity. It addresses all the major perspectives on - and dimensions to - heritage and identity in a range of geographical contexts. more...
Beyond the Image Machine
Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 140.00Beyond the Image Machine: A History of Visual Technologies is an eloquent and stimulating argument for an alternative history of scientific and technological imaging systems. It explores the ways in which the technological medium through which a piece of visual art is rendered contributes significantly to the experience of the human looking at it.... more...
Devil's Rope
Reaktion Books 2004; US$ 29.00In this book, Alan Krell investigates the place barbed wire holds in the social imagination. more...
Signs of Power
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 32.95Traces the sources of power and large-scale organization of prehistoric peoples among Archaic societies. By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this book explores the sources of power and organization... more...









