Handbook of material culture / edited by Christopher Tilley [and four others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In the matter of Marxism / Bill Maurer -- Structuralism and semiotics / Robert Layton -- Phenomenology and material culture / Julian Thomas -- Objectification / Christopher Tilley -- Agency, biography and objects / Janet Hoskins -- Scenes from a troubled engagement : post-structuralism and material culture studies / Bjørnar Olsen -- Colonial matters : material culture and postcolonial theory in colonial situations / Peter van Dommelen -- Four types of visual culture / Christopher Pinney -- Food, eating, and the good life / Judith Farquhar -- Scent, sound and synaesthesia : intersensoriality and material culture theory / David Howes -- The colours of things / Diana Young -- Inside and outside : surfaces and containers / Jean-Pierre Warnier -- Cloth and clothing / Jane Schneider -- Home furnishing and domestic interiors / Robert St. George -- Vernacular architecture / Suzanne Preston Blier -- Architecture and modernism / Victor Buchli -- 'Primitivism', anthropology, and the category of 'primitive art' / Fred Myers -- Tracking globalization : commodities and value in motion / Robert J. Foster -- Place and landscape / Barbara Bender -- Cultural memory / Paul Connerton -- Technology as material culture / Ron Eglash -- Consumption / Daniel Miller -- Style, design, and function / Margaret W. Conkey -- Exchange / James G. Carrier -- Performance / Jon P. Mitchell -- Present to past : ethnoarchaeology / Paul Lane -- Material culture and long-term change / Chris Gosden -- Intellectual property and rights : an anthropological perspective / Marilyn Strathern -- Heritage and the present past / Beverley Butler -- Museums and museum displays / Anthony Alan Shelton -- Monuments and memorials / Michael Rowlands and Christopher Tilley -- Conservation as material culture / Diana Eastop -- Collectors and collecting / Russell Belk.