Material Culture studies are a growing field of academic research. Its aim is to understand societies and cultures through careful observation and discussion of the physical objects generated by those societies, as well as the interaction with them.
The source material for study is exceptionally interdisciplinary, so Intellect is proud to present its dedicated Material Culture ebook Collection, offering important research across fashion, film, media, popular culture and more in one bundle:
Cotton
Reframing Reality
Why Would Anyone Wear That?
Real Objects in Unreal Situations
Queer Communion
Field Notes on the Visual Arts
Raymond Williams
Vanishing Points
Planet Cosplay
The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran
What's Next?
Coming soon:
Post-Specimen Encounters Between Art…
For more information and prices please contact Jelena Stanovnik, jelena@intellectbooks.com. Further discounts are available to our journal collection subscribers. The official Material Culture ebooks page can be found here.
Scholars of Material Culture might also be interested in the following articles published in Intellect Journals:
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Making / Craft / Objects and Material Culture
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Ceramics and locational identity: Investigating the symbolism of material culture in relation to a sense of place
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A thing to hold: The visual language of the book form
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Exploring material culture of carpets in Turkey via an art project
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Craft as cultural ecologically located practice: Comparative case studies of textile crafts in Cyprus, Estonia and Peru
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Meaningful practices: The contemporary relevance of traditional making for sustainable material futures
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Mixed fibres: Human and non-human collaboration
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Constructive parchment destruction in medieval manuscripts
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Unbound: Beyond the codex, the book as process/experience/event
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Ceramics, narrative and commemoration
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Mattering and making ethics: On craft, embodiment and vulnerable materialities
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Framing movement experiences: Migration, materiality and everyday life
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Kids at heart?: Exploring the material cultures of adult fans of all-ages animated shows
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The spectral interior: Gender and representations of household objects in the work of three Chinese artists
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An intergenerational and semiotic exploration of hair combs as material culture
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Material Culture and Clothing
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The queer coat: Konstantin Goncharov’s fashion, Russian masculinity and queer world building
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New materialism: A theoretical framework for fashion in the age of technological innovation (OA)
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Battle jackets, authenticity and ‘material individuality’
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The scenographic, costumed chorus, agency and the performance of matter: A new materialist approach to costume
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Special Issue: ‘Fashioning through materials: Material culture, materiality and processes of materialization’ (eds Sophie Woodward and Tom Fisher)
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Making sense of dress: On sensory perspectives of wardrobe research (OA)
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A sense of forgetting and remembering: Memories of smell and clothing
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An intergenerational and semiotic exploration of hair combs as material culture
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The dressed body, material and technology: Rethinking the hijab through sartorial sociology
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Material Culture in Art Education
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Towards an immanent read: Being with wool as text
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An object-oriented curriculum theory for STEAM: Boundary shifters, materiality and per(form)ing 3D thinking
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Becoming a work of art: Collaboration, materiality and posthumanism in visual arts education.
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Burning cotton: Art education and the unemptied dustbin of history
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