Handbook of material culture / edited by Christopher Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Küchler, Mike Rowlands and Patricia Spyer.

Part I : Theoretical perspectives / introduction by Christopher Tilley -- 1. In the matter of Marxism / Bill Maurer -- 2. Structuralism and semiotics / Robert Layton -- 3. Phenomenology and material culture / Julian Thomas -- 4. Objectification / Christopher Tilley -- 5. Agency, biography and objects / Janet Hoskins -- 6. Scenes from a troubled engagement : post- structuralism and material culture studies / Bjørnar Olsen -- 7. Colonial matters : material culture and postcolonial theory in colonial situations / Peter van Dommelen -- Part II : The body, materiality and the senses / introduction by Patricia Spyer -- 8. Four types of visual culture / Christopher Pinney -- 9. Food, eating, and the good life / Judith Farquhar -- 10. Scent, sound and synaesthesia : intersensoriality and material culture theory / David Howes -- 11. The colours of things / Diana Young -- 12. Inside and outside : surfaces and containers / Jean-Pierre Warnier -- Part III : Subjects and objects / introduction by Webb Keane -- 13. Cloth and clothing / Jane Schneider -- 14. Home furnishing and domestic interiors / Robert St. George -- 15. Vernacular architecture / Suzanne Preston Blier -- 16. Architecture and modernism / Victor Buchli -- 17. 'Primitivism', anthropology, and the category of 'primitive art' / Fred Myers -- 18. Tracking globalization : commodities and value in motion / Robert J. Foster -- 19. Place and landscape / Barbara Bender -- 20. Cultural memory / Paul Connerton --

Part IV : Process and transformation / introduction by Susanne Küchler -- 21. Technology as material culture / Ron Eglash -- 22. Consumption / Daniel Miller -- 23. Style, design, and function / Margaret W. Conkey -- 24. Exchange / James G. Carrier -- 25. Performance / Jon P. Mitchell -- 26. Present to past : ethnoarchaeology / Paul Lane -- 27. Material culture and long-term change / Chris Gosden -- Part V : Presentation and politics / introduction by Michael Rowlands -- 28. Intellectual property and rights : an anthropological perspective / Marilyn Strathern -- 29. Heritage and the present past / Beverley Butler -- 30. Museums and museum displays / Anthony Alan Shelton -- 31. Monuments and memorials / Michael Rowlands and Christopher Tilley -- 32. Conservation as material culture / Diana Eastop -- 33. Collectors and collecting / Russell Belk.