Pt. I. Theoretical perspectives : introduction / Christopher Tilley 1. In the matter of Marxism / Bill Maurer 2. Structuralism and semiotics / Robert Layton 3. Phenomenology and material culture / Julian Thomas 4. Objectification / Christopher Tilley 5. Agency, biography and objects / Janet Hoskins 6. Scenes from a troubled engagement : post-structuralism and material culture studies / Bjornar Olsen 7. Colonial matters : material culture and postcolonial theory in colonial situations / Peter van Dommelen Pt. II. The body, materiality and the senses : introduction / Patricia Spyer 8. Four types of visual culture / Christopher Pinney 9. Food, eating, and the good life / Judith Farquhar 10. Scent, sound and synaesthesia : intersensoriality and material culture theory / David Howes 11. The colours of things / Diana Young 12. Inside and outside : surfaces and containers / Jean-Pierre Warnier Pt. III. Subjects and objects : introduction / Webb Keane 13. Cloth and clothing / Jane Schneider 14. Home furnishing and domestic interiors / Robert St. George 15. Vernacular architecture / Suzanne Preston Blier 16. Architecture and modernism / Victor Buchli 17. 'Primitivism', anthropology, and the category of 'primitive art' / Fred Myers 18. Tracking globalization : commodities and value in motion / Robert J. Foster 19. Place and landscape / Barbara Bender 20. Cultural memory / Paul Connerton Pt. IV. Process and transformation : introduction / Susanne Kuchler 21. Technology as material culture / Ron Eglash 22. Consumption / Daniel Miller 23. Style, design, and function / Margaret W. Conkey 24. Exchange / James G. Carrier 25. Performance / Jon P. Mitchell 26. Present to past : ethnoarchaeology / Paul Lane 27. Material culture and long-term change / Chris Gosden Pt. V. Presentation and politics : introduction / Michael Rowlands 28. Intellectual property and rights : an anthropological perspective / Marilyn Strathern 29. Heritage and the present past / Beverley Butler 30. Museums and museum displays / Anthony Alan Shelton 31. Monuments and memorials / Michael Rowlands and Christopher Tilley 32. Conservation as material culture / Diana Eastop 33. Collectors and collecting / Russell Belk.