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This fascinating study focuses on the material culture of food, demonstrating how food offers a means of shaping the self not simply through consumption but in everyday forms of production, through fine dining, shopping and blogging to TV and cookbooks.

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This fascinating study focuses on the material culture of food, demonstrating how food offers a means of shaping the self not simply through consumption but in everyday forms of production, through fine dining, shopping and blogging to TV and cookbooks.

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Food Waste is the first academic study to tackle this highly topical subject. Drawing from social science approaches to waste, material culture and everyday life in the home, the author uncovers the reasons behind the vast quantity of food wasted on a daily basis by households and consumers.

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Food Waste is the first academic study to tackle this highly topical subject. Drawing from social science approaches to waste, material culture and everyday life in the home, the author uncovers the reasons behind the vast quantity of food wasted on a daily basis by households and consumers.

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From its earliest days, Hollywood glamour in the form of make-up, hairstyles and fashion was mimicked by women throughout Britain. This is an exploration of the influence of Hollywood on British style and design.

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From its earliest days, Hollywood glamour in the form of make-up, hairstyles and fashion was mimicked by women throughout Britain. This is an exploration of the influence of Hollywood on British style and design.

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This book investigates what really goes on at these 'special' homosocial gatherings, where heterosexual women drink, laugh, shop, play party games and talk about sex.

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This book investigates what really goes on at these 'special' homosocial gatherings, where heterosexual women drink, laugh, shop, play party games and talk about sex.

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In order to take the concept of material culture seriously, its capacity to carry the past - which defines its status as culture - must be examined. Focusing on the relationship of objects with memory, this text is an attempt to understand the intersection of memory and material culture.

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In order to take the concept of material culture seriously, its capacity to carry the past - which defines its status as culture - must be examined. Focusing on the relationship of objects with memory, this text is an attempt to understand the intersection of memory and material culture.

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Focusing on developments in the visual arts over the last 80 years but drawing extensively on historical precedents, this book shows that Marxism is far subtler than is commonly assumed.

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Focusing on developments in the visual arts over the last 80 years but drawing extensively on historical precedents, this book shows that Marxism is far subtler than is commonly assumed.

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This work offers a theoretical account of the interrelationship of culture, food and memory. The Greek island of Kalymnos, where islanders claim to remember meals long past, provides the main setting for a discussion of embodiment, memory and material culture.

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Offering a theoretical account of the interrelationship of culture, food, and memory, this book deals with anthropology's focus on issues of embodiment, memory, and material culture, in relation to transnational migration and the flow of culture. It argues for the crucial role of a simultaneous consideration of food and memory.

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Explores what happens when the often contradictory motivations behind style and survival strategies are brought together. Following the life stories of goods as they travel into and through second-hand sites, this book looks at the work of traders, as well as consumers' investments in second-hand merchandise.

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Explores what happens when the often contradictory motivations behind style and survival strategies are brought together. Following the life stories of goods as they travel into and through second-hand sites, this book looks at the work of traders, as well as consumers' investments in second-hand merchandise.

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This book opens up an area of urban studies, the auditory experience of self and place.

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This book opens up an area of urban studies, the auditory experience of self and place.

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Offers an account of the ways in which, through time, the Stonehenge landscape has been used and re-used, invested with new meanings, and has given rise to stories. The book presents a range of views and provides insights into how people shape and are shaped by the landscape.

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Offers an account of the ways in which, through time, the Stonehenge landscape has been used and re-used, invested with new meanings, and has given rise to stories. The book presents a range of views and provides insights into how people shape and are shaped by the landscape.

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Presents an intimate ethnography of clothing choice. This book uses real women's lives and clothing decisions-observed and discussed at the moment of getting dressed - to illustrate theories of clothing, the body, and identity. It provides students of anthropology and fashion with a fresh perspective on the social issues and constraints.

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Presents an intimate ethnography of clothing choice. This book uses real women's lives and clothing decisions-observed and discussed at the moment of getting dressed - to illustrate theories of clothing, the body, and identity. It provides students of anthropology and fashion with a fresh perspective on the social issues and constraints.