The country's leading authority on use of artifactual evidence in historical research collects twenty-five classic essays and gives his overview of the field of

"You can tell a lot about people by looking at their stuff - the things they make, process, and value. That is the idea that drives the field of material cultur

Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook makes accessible a full range of theoretical and applied approaches to the study of material culture,

The study of material culture is concerned with the relationship between persons and things in the past and in the present, in urban and industrialized and in s