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

The field of material culture, while historically well established, has recently enjoyed something of a renaissance. Methods once dominated by Marxist- and comm

"This should become a core text for second year courses in sociology and cultural studies... it synthesizes a vast body of literature and a complex range of deb

This innovative and provocative work introduces complexity theory and its application to both the study of language and the study of material culture. The book

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