"In his interdisciplinary review of material culture, Ian Woodward goes beyond synthesis to offer a theoretically innovative reconstruction of the field. It is

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

Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork, Glassie's Vernacular Architecture synthesizes a career of concern with traditional building. He articulates the key pri

Explores the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years.

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,