Pt. I. Theoretical perspectives : introduction / 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 / Bjornar Olsen
7. Colonial matters : material culture and postcolonial theory in colonial situations / Peter van Dommelen
Pt. II. The body, materiality and the senses : introduction / 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
Pt. III. Subjects and objects : introduction / 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
Pt. IV. Process and transformation : introduction / Susanne Kuchler
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
Pt. V. Presentation and politics : introduction / 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.
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