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Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society.
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With approaches ranging from semiotic theory to psychoanalytic theory, sociological theory to... Læs mere
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This collection discusses and illustrates how educational research is affected by the economic, institutional and physical contingencies of its time, and in our time even increasingly is driven by them.
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This book reveals that the way we perceive sex robots is how we perceive ourselves, overcoming the false human/non-human binary. In Sex Robots, the history of this... Læs mere
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Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society.
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In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture to help understand the less tangible aspects of that culture, such as societal structure, rituals, and values.
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Examines how the cultures and identities of the intermediaries involved in the Anglo-American ceramic trade shaped the marketing and commissioning of designs
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Hot Type is the story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg’s movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media.
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During the eighteenth century, comfortable everyday life becomes a new ideal. The good life was no longer about grand representation... Læs mere
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Military uniforms, badges, flags, and other material objects have been used to represent the identity of Americans throughout history.... Læs mere
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Offers a historically informed analysis of modern and contemporary responses to luxury.
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Surveying the collecting culture from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, this study explores how material things... Læs mere