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Elizabeth Bye
Fashion Design book cover coming soon.

This text is designed to introduce undergraduate students to the central concepts of fashion design. Whereas fashion design is often considered entirely frivolous, this book considers the significant cultural, economic, and ethical issues that designers must balance to be effective in the global fashion industry.  read more
November, 2010 / 224 pages.
1-84788-266-8
1-84788-267-6
$29.95
$99.95
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Contemporary Ethnographic Practice
Edited by Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright
Between Art and Anthropology book cover coming soon.

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October, 2010 / 192 pages.
1-84788-500-4
1-84788-501-2
$29.95
$89.95
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Volumes 1 - 6
Series Edited by William Bynum and Linda Kalof

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August, 2010 / 1700 pages.
1-84520-495-6
$595.00
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A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects
Prasad Boradkar
Designing Things book cover coming soon.

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July, 2010 / 320 pages.
1-84520-427-1
1-84520-426-3
$34.95
$99.95
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Sex Selection, Gender and Culture in South Asia
Navtej K. Purewal
Son Preference book cover coming soon.

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June, 2010 / 192 pages.
1-84520-468-9
1-84520-467-0
$29.95
$99.95
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Infected Spaces Past and Present
Edited by Ann Herring and Alan C. Swedlund
Plagues and Epidemics book cover coming soon.

Until recently, plagues were thought to belong in the ancient past.   Now there are deep worries about global pandemics.   This book presents views from anthropology about this much publicized and complex problem.  read more
June, 2010 / 416 pages.
1-84788-547-0
1-84788-548-9
$34.95
$99.95
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Edited by Val Williams, Alison Nordström and Kathy Kubicki
Photography and Culture Volume 3 Issue 1 book cover coming soon.

Photography and Culture is in the forefront of new critical, reflective and analytical writing on photography. It is pluralistic in its approach, inter-disciplinary, embracing the historic and the contemporary and independent of any one prevailing theoretical critical model.  read more
May, 2010 / 128 pages.
1-84788-554-3
$35.95
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Edited by Glenn Adamson, Tanya Harrod and Edward S. Cooke, Jr.
The Journal of Modern Craft Volume 3 Issue 1 book cover coming soon.

The Journal of Modern Craft is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to provide an interdisciplinary and international forum in its subject area. It addresses all forms of making that self-consciously set themselves apart from mass production--whether in the making of designed objects, artworks, buildings, or other artefacts.  read more
May, 2010 / 128 pages.
1-84788-556-X
$35.95
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The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture
Edited by Valerie Steele
Fashion Theory Volume 14 Issue 1 book cover coming soon.

Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of "fashion" as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising.  read more
May, 2010 / 128 pages.
1-84788-553-5
$35.95
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Edited by Grace Lees-Maffei and Rebecca Houze
The Design History Reader book cover coming soon.

The first systematic and comprehensive reader on Design History, this book examines the role of design and designed objects within social and cultural history.  read more
May, 2010 / 544 pages.
1-84788-389-3
1-84788-388-5
$39.95
$129.95
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Edited by Catherine Harper and Doran Ross
Textile Volume 8 Issue 1 book cover coming soon.

This exciting journal brings together research in textiles in an innovative and distinctive academic forum, and will be of interest to all those who share a multifaceted view of textiles within an expanded field.  read more
May, 2010 / 128 pages.
1-84788-555-1
$35.95
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A Visual Anthropology
Gordon Gray
Cinema book cover coming soon.

Cinema: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates, and texts of the most important approaches to the study of fiction film from around the world.  read more
April, 2010 / 224 pages.
1-84520-794-7
1-84520-793-9
$29.95
$99.95
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Material Culture in the Modern Home
Inge Daniels
The Japanese House book cover coming soon.

In the West, the Japanese house has reached iconic status in its architecture, decoration and style. Is this neat, carefully constructed version of Japanese life in fact a myth?  Inge Daniels goes behind the doors of real Japanese homes to find out how highly private domestic lives are lived in Japan.  read more
April, 2010 / 320 pages.
1-84520-517-0
1-84520-516-2
$34.95
$99.95
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