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This text examines the meaning of material culture in relation to memory and death, from personal mementos through to public memorials. It asks why material objects commemorating the dead, in conjunction with their embedded social practices, have rarely been subjected to sustained analysis.

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Capetian France 987-1328 is an authoritative overview of the country's development across four centuries, with a focus on changes to the political, religious, social and cultural climate during this period. It is essential reading for all students of medieval France and Europe.

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This book challenges the orthodox views of William I's great census of 1086, to give an intriguing story of the origins of England s greatest historical record, as well as new insights into its contents.

There is no prepared script for social and cultural life. People work it out as they go along. Creativity and Cultural Improvisation casts fresh, anthropological eyes on the cultural sites of creativity that form part of our social matrix.

Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow. Though the former are often regarded as artefacts and the latter as organisms, the book calls this distinction into question, examining the implications for our understanding of materials, des...

Examines how 'otherness' has been constituted, communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Contributors explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil, India, Israel, Australia and Africa.

When Hugh Capet took the throne of France in 987, his kingdom was weak and insignificant, but from an inauspicious beginning he founded a dynasty that was to last over 300 years and came to dominate western Europe. By 1100, France was already the hub of the universe to scholars and poets, to crusaders and the designers of churches, reforming churchmen and monks. Even though its kings were comparatively insignificant figures, 'la douce France' ...

Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow. Though the former are often regarded as artefacts and the latter as organisms, the book calls this distinction into question, examining the implications for our understanding of materials, des...

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Beyond the Body presents a new and sophisticated approach to death, dying and bereavement, and the sociology of the body. The authors challenge existing theories that put the body at the centre of identity. They go 'beyond the body' to highlight the persistence of self-identity even when the body itself has been disposed of or is missing. Chapters draw together a wide range of empirical data, including cross-cultural case studies and fieldwork...

Explores the ways creative agency is attributed in the graphic and performing arts and in intellectual property law. The book shows how the sources of creativity are embedded in social, political and religious institutions, and also examines the relation between creativity and the perception and passage of time.

Subtitled, "Death & The Body Displayed". Investigates the techniques of preservation and visual representation of cadavers.