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, and the place of materiality in social theory, presenting current thinking about material culture from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, geography, and science and technology studies.

1: Dan Hicks & Mary C. Beaudry: Introduction I. Disciplinary Perspectives 2: Dan Hicks: The Material-Cultural Turn 3: Ian Cook & Divya Tolia-Kelly: Material Geographies 4: Robert St George: Folklife 5: Ann Stahl: Material Histories 6: John Law: The Materials of STS II. Material Practices 7: Andrew Pickering: Material Culture and the Dance of Agency 8: Michael Dietler: Consumption 9: Gavin Lucas: Fieldwork and Collecting 10: Hirokazu Miyazaki: Gifts and Exchange 11: Howard Morphy: Art as Action, Art as Evidence 12: Rosemary Joyce with Joshua Pollard: Archaeological Assemblages and Practices of Deposition III. Objects and Humans 13: Kacy L. Hollenback & Michael B. Schiffer: Technology ande Material Life 14: Andy Jones & Nicole Boivin: The Malice of Inanimate Objects: Material Agency 15: Chris Fowler: `Personhood' and Identity 16: Zoe Crossland: Materiality and Embodiment 17: Tatyana Hulme: Material Culture in Primates IV. Landscapes and the Built Environment 18: Lesley Head: Cultural Landscapes 19: Sarah Whatmore & Steve Hinchliffe: Ecological Landscapes 20: Roland Fletcher: Urban Materialities: Meaning, Magnitude, Friction, and Outcomes 21: Carl Lounsbury: Architecture and Cultural History 22: Victor Buchli: Households and `Home Cultures' V. Studying Particular Things 23: Rodney Harrison: Stone Tools 24: Chandra Mukerji: The Landscape Garden as Material Culture: Lessons from France 25: Douglass W. Bailey & Lesley McFadyen: Built Objects 26: Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris & Peter Tomkins: Ceramics (as Containers) 27: Peter J. Pels: Magical Things: On Fetishes, Commodities, and Computers Nigel Thrift: Afterword: Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'Be: Thinking Through Material Thinking as Placing and Arrangement

New Preface by Dan Hicks and Mary Beaudry Leading international scholars bring together many different approaches to material culture studies, in the USA, in Europe, and beyond Presents overviews of the study of material culture from diverse disciplinary perspectives, especially archaeology and anthropology Rich case studies, well illustrated, will stimulate both teaching and further enquiry Comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography - an invaluable resource for all students and researchers

Dan Hicks is Associate Professor & Curator in Archaeology, School of Archaeology & Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Mary C. Beaudry is Professor of Archaeology & Anthropology, Boston University.

New Preface by Dan Hicks and Mary Beaudry Leading international scholars bring together many different approaches to material culture studies, in the USA, in Europe, and beyond Presents overviews of the study of material culture from diverse disciplinary perspectives, especially archaeology and anthropology Rich case studies, well illustrated, will stimulate both teaching and further enquiry Comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography - an invaluable resource for all students and researchers