Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: victor buchli

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  • AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOCIALISM
    VICTOR BUCHLI
    This highly original case study, which adopts a material culture perspective, is unprecedented in social and cultural histories of the Soviet period and provides a unique window on social relations. The author demonstrates how Moisei Ginzburg's Constructivist masterpiece, the Narkomfin Communal House, employed classic Marxist understandings of material culture in an effort to o...

    $1,040.00

  • THE MATERIAL CULTURE READER
    VICTOR BUCHLI
    Material culture has finally earned a central place within anthropology. Emerging from the pioneering work done at University College London, this reader brings together for the first time seminal articles that have helped shape the anthropological study of material culture. With topics ranging from the anthropology of art to architecture, landscape studies, archaeology, consum...

    $920.00

  • AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF ARCHITECTURE
    VICTOR BUCHLI
    Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview of how anthropologists have studied architecture and the extraordinarily rich thought and data this has produced.With a focus on domestic space - that intimate context in which anthropologists traditionally work - the book explains h...

    $1,100.00

  • AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE IMMATERIAL
    VICTOR BUCHLI
    An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world. Buchli argues that this is evident in a number of cultural projects, including anti-consumerism and asceticism, as well as other attempts to transcend material circumstances. Exploring the cultural work which can be...

    $1,160.00

  • URBAN LIFE IN POST-SOVIET ASIA
    ALEXANDER, CATHARINE / BUCHLI, VICTOR / HUMPHREY, CAROLINE
    Capturing a unique historical moment, this book examines the changes in urban life since the collapse of the Soviet Union from an ethnographic perspective, thus addressing significant gaps in the literature on cities, Central Asia and post-socialism. It encompasses Tashkent, Almaty, Astana and Ulan-Ude: four cities with quite different responses to the fall of the Soviet Union....

    $1,320.00

  • ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE CONTEMPORARY PAST
    VICTOR BUCHLI / GAVIN LUCAS
    Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past turns what is usually seen as a method for investigating the distant past onto the present. In doing so, it reveals fresh ways of looking both at ourselves and modern society as well as the discipline of archaeology. This volume represents the most recent research in this area and examines a variety of contexts including: * Art Deco * land...

    $1,340.00