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Alexander, C. 1979. The Timeless Way of Building. Oxford University Press.
Alexander, C. 1977. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. Oxford University Press.
Appadurai, A. 1986. Introduction: commodities and the politics of value. In The Social Life of Things. A. Appadurai (ed.). Cambridge: CUP, pp. 3-63.
Appadurai, A. 1994. Commodities and the politics of value, In Interpreting objects and collections. S.M. Pearce (ed.) London: Routledge. 76-91.
Attfield, J. 2000. Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life. Oxford: Berg Publishers.
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Bailey, D. 2005. Prehistoric Figurines Corporeality and Representation in the Neolithic. London: Routledge.
Baudrillard, J. 1996. The System of Objects. London, New York: Verso.
Benjamin, W. 1973. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. In H. Arendt (ed.) Illuminations. New York.
Benso, S. 1996. Of things face-to-face with Levinas face-to-face with Heidegger: prolegomena to a metaphysical ethics of things. Philosophy Today 40(1), 132-141.
Bijker, W.E. 1995. Of Bicycles Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a theory of sociotechnical change. Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press.
Bijker, W., T. Hughes and T. Pinch (editors) 1987. The Social Construction of Technological Systems. MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
Bijker, W.E. and J. Law (ed.) 1992. Shaping Technology/Building Society. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press.
Bowker, G. 2005: Memory Practices in the Sciences, The MIT Press.
Bowker, G. and S.L. Star, 2000: Sorting Tings Out: Classification and Its Consequences. The MIT Press.
Bradley, R. 2003: Seeing things: Perception, experience and the constraints of excavation, Journal of Social Archaeology 3(2): 151-168.
Bradley, R. 2006: The excavation report as a literary genre: Traditional practice in Britain. World Archaeology 38(4): 664-671.
Brooks, R. 2004. The Portland Vase. New York: Harper Collins.
Brown, B. 2003. A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Brown, B. 2001. Thing Theory. Critical Inquiry 28(1), 1-22.
Buchli, V. 1995. Interpreting material culture: the trouble with text. In Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past. I. Hodder, M. Shanks, A. Alexandri, V. Buchli, J. Carman, J. Last, and G. Lucas (eds), London: Routledge, pp. 181-93.
Buchli, V. 2002 The material culture reader. Berg, Oxford, UK ; New York.
Buchli, V. 2004. Material Culture: Current Problems. In A Companion to Social Archaeology. L. Meskell and R. Preucel (eds) . Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, pp. 179-194.
Buchli, V. and G. Lucas (editors) 2001 Archaeology of the Contemporary Past. Routledge, London.
Buck-Morss, S. 1989 The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project. MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
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Callon, M. and J. Law, 1997. After the individual in society. Lessons on collectivity from science, technology and society, Canadian journal of sociology, 22(2), 165-82.
Callon, M., J. Law and A. Rip (editors) 1986 Mapping the Dynamics of Science and technology. Macmillan, London.
Carman, J. 1996. Valuing Ancient Things: Archaeology and Law. Leicester University press/Cassell, London.
Carr, C. and J. E. Neitzel (editors) 1995. Style, Society and Person: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives. Plenum, New York.
Chevallier, D. 1991. Savoir faire et pouvoir transmettre : transmission et apprentissage des savoir-faire et des techniques. Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris.
Christov-Bakargiev, C. 1999. Arte Povera. Phaidon, New York.
Cockburn, C. 1981 The material of male power. Feminist Review 9:41-58.
Conkey, M. and C. Hastorf (editors) 1990 The Uses of Style in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Coote, J. and A. Shelton (editors) 1992 Anthropology, Art and Aesthetics. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Cotterrel, B. and J. Kamminga 1990 The Mechanics of Pre-Industrial Technology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Csikszentmihalyi, M. and E. Rochberg-Halton, 1981. The meaning of things: Domestic symbols and the self. Cambridge: CUP
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Deetz, J. 1996. In Small Things Forgotten. An Archaeology of Early American Life. New York: Anchor Books.
DeLanda, M. 1997 A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. Swerve/Zone, New York.
DeMarrais, E., Gosden, C., and Renfrew, C. (eds.) 2004. Rethinking Materiality: The Engagement of Mind with the Material World. MacDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge.
Doordan, D. P. (editor) 1995 Design History: An Anthology. MIT, Cambridge.
Dormer, p. 1990 The Meanings of Modern Design. Thames and Hudson, London.
Douglas, M. and B. C. Isherwood 1979 The world of goods. Basic Books, New York.
Domanska, E. 2006. The return to things. Archaeologia Polona 44, 171-185.
Du Gay, P., S. Hall, L. Janes, H. Mackay, K. Negus, 1997. Doing Cultural Studies: the Story of The Sony Walkman. London: Sage.
Dunnell, R.C. 1978. Style and function: A fundamental dichotomy. American Antiquity 43: 192-202.
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Edwards, E., C. Gosden and R.B. Phillips, 2006. Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture. Oxford: Berg Publishers.
Eisenstein. E.L., 1979: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. Cambridge.
Elias, N. 1979/81 The Civilising Process.
Elliott, B. (editor) 1988 Technology and Social Process. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
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Gell, A. 1998. Art and agency. Oxford: OUP.
Glassie, H. 1999: Material Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Gosden, C. and Y. Marshall (eds) 1999. The cultural biography of objects. World Archaeology 31 (2): 169-178.
Greenaway, P. 1992. 100 Objects to Represent the World. Hatje, Stuttgart.
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Hacking, I. 2001. The Social Construction of What? Cambridge, Mass: Harvard.
Haraway, D., 1991: Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. The Reinvention of Nature, New York.
Harman, G. 2002: Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects. Chicago: Open Court.
Harman, G. 2005: Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things. Chicago: Open Court.
Harman, G. 2005: Heidegger on Objects and Things. In Latour, B. and Weibel, P. (eds) Making Things Public. Atmospheres of Democracy. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 268-271.
Harman, G. 2007: Heidegger Explained: From Phenomenon to Thing. Chicago: Open Court.
Haug, W. F. 1987 Commodity aesthetics, ideology & culture. International General, New York.
Hayles, N.K., 1999: How We became Posthuman. Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, Chicago.
Hebdige, D. 1979 Subculture: the Meaning of Style. Methuen, London.
Heidegger, M., 1971: Poetry, language, thought, (tr. A. Hofstadter), New York. READ: The Thing, 161-184.
Heidegger, M. 1996. Being and Time. State University of New York Press, Albany. The Necessity, Structure and Priority of the Question of Being and The Worldliness of the World, 2-12 and 59-105
Te Heesen, A. 2005: The notebook: A paper technology. In Latour, B. and Weibel, P. (eds) Making Things Public. Atmospheres of Democracy. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 582-589.
Henare, A., M. Holbraad and S. Wastell (ed.) 2007. Thinking through Things: Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically. London: Routledge.
Hodder, I., 1999: The Archaeological Process. An introduction, Oxford.
Holtorf, C., 2001: Monumental Past. The Life-histories of Megalithic Monuments in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany), available at: [link]
Hooper-Greenhill, E. 1992 Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge. Routledge, London.
Hughes, T.P. 2002. Edison and electric light. In The Social Shaping of Technology. D. MacKenzie and J. Wajcman, Second Edition. Buckingham: Open University Press, pp. 50-63.
Hutchins, E., 1996: Cognition in the Wild, Cambridge.
Hyde, L. 1983 The gift : imagination and the erotic life of property. 1st ed. Random House, New York.
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Ihde, D. (1976) Listening and Voice: A Phenomenology of Sound. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press.
Ihde. D. 2003. If Phenomenology is an Albatross, is Post-phenomenology Possible? In Ihde, D. and Selinger E. (eds.), Chasing Technoscience. Matrix for Materiality. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 131-144.
Ingold, T., 2000: The Perception of the Environment. Essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill, London: Routledge.
Ingold, T. 2004. Culture on the ground: the world perceived through the feet. Journal of Material Culture 9(3): 315-340.
Ingold, T. 2007a. Lines: A brief history. London: Routledge.
Ingold, T. 2007b. Materials against materiality. Archaeological Dialogues 14(1), 1-16.
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Knappett, C. 2005. Thinking through Material Culture. An Interdisciplinary Perspective. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
Knorr Cetina, K. 1997. Sociality with objects: social relations in postsocial knowledge societies. Theory, Culture & Society 14(4), 1-30.
Kopytoff, I. 1986. The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process. In The Social Life of Things. A. Appadurai (ed.), Cambridge: CUP, pp. 64–91.
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Latour, B., 1986: Visualization and cognition. Thinking with eyes and hands, in H. Kuklick, and E. Long (eds), Knowledge and Society. Studies in the Sociology of Culture Past and Present Vol. 6, 1-40.
Latour, B. 1990: Drawing things together. In S. Woolgar and M. Lynch (eds), Representation in Scientific Practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Latour, B. 1993. We Have Never Been Modern. (tr. C. Porter), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Latour, B. 1994. Pragmatogonies. American Behavioral Scientist 37(6), 791-808.
Latour, B. 1999: Pandora’s Hope. Essays on the Reality of Science Studies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Latour, B. 2005: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Latour, B. and P. Weibel (eds) 2002: iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art. Karlsruhe: ZKM.
Latour, B. and P. Lemonnier (eds) 1994 De la prehistoire aux missiles balistiques - l'intelligence sociale des techniques. Paris: La Decouverte.
Latour, B. and P. Weibel (eds) 2005: Making Things Public. Atmospheres of Democracy. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Law, J. 1993. Organizing Modernities. Cambridge: Blackwell.
Law, J. 2002. Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience. Duke Univeristy Press.
Law, J. and J. Hassard, 1999. Actor Network Theory and After. Oxford: Blackwell.
Leroi-Gourhan, A. 1993. Gesture and Speech. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Lemonnier, P. 1992. Elements for an Anthropology of Technology. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Chapter 1 and 3. 1-24 and 51-77.
Lemonnier, P. 1993. Technical Choices: Transformations in Material Cultures since the Neolithic. London: Routledge.
Lubar, S. and W. D. Kingery (eds.) 1993. History from Things: Essays on Material Culture. London: Smithsonian Institution Press.
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Malafouris, L. 2004. The cognitive basis of material engagement. Where brain, body and culture conflate. In DeMarrais, E., Gosden, C., and Renfrew, C. (eds.) 2004. Rethinking Materiality: The Engagement of Mind with the Material World. MacDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, pp. 53-62.
Marx, K. 1977. Capital: Vol.1. A Critical analysis of capitalist production. New York: Vintage.
Marx, K. 2002. The machine verses the worker. In The Social Shaping of Technology. D. MacKenzie and J. Wajcman (eds), Second Edition. Buckingham: Open University Press. 156-58.
Mauss, M. 1990. The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies. New York: Norton.
Mauss, M. 2006. Techniques, Technology and Civilization. N. Schlanger (ed.) Durkheim Press.
Meskell, L. 2004a. Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt. Material Biographies Past and Present. BERG Publishers, Oxford.
Meskell, L. 2004b. Divine things. In DeMarrais, E., Gosden, C., and Renfrew, C. (eds.) 2004. Rethinking Materiality: The Engagement of Mind with the Material World. MacDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, pp. 249-259.
Meskell, L. 2005. Introduction. Object orientations. In Meskell, L. (ed.) Archaeologies of Materiality. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, pp. 1-17.
Miller, D. 1995. Consumption and commodities. Annual Review of Anthropology 19: 453-505.
Miller, D. 1987. Material Culture and Mass Consumption. London: Basil Blackwell.
Miller, D. 1998. Material Cultures; Why Some Things Matter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter 1, 3-21 and Chapter 8, 169-187.
Miller, D. 2005. Introduction. In D. Miller (ed.) Materiality. Duke University Press, Durham, pp. 1-50.
Morphy, H. and M. Perkins, 2006. The Anthropology of Art. A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Myers, F.R. (ed.) 2001. The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture. Santa Fe: The School of American Research.
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Netz, R. 2004. Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
Norman, D.A. 2001. The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books.
Norman, D.A. 2005. Emotional Design: why we love (or hate) everyday things. New York: Basic Books.
Norman, D.A. 2007. The Design of Future Things. New York: Basic Books.
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Olsen, B., 2003: Material culture after text. Re-membering things, Norwegian archaeological review 36(2), 87-104.
Olsen, B., 2006: Scenes from a troubled engagement. Post-structuralism and material culture studies, in C. Tilley, W. Keane, S. Kuechler, M. Rowlands, and P. Spyer (eds), Handbook of Material Culture. London, 85-103.
Osborne, R and J. Tanner (eds), 2007. Art’s Agency and Art History. Oxford: Blackwell.
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Pearce, S. (editor) 1989. Museum Studies in material Culture. Leicester University Press, Leicester.
Pearce, S. 1992. Museum Objects and Collections: a Cultural Study. Leicester University Press, Leicester.
Pearce, S. 1997. Collecting in Contemporary Practice. AltaMira Sage, London.
Petroski, H. 1985. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. New York: St Martin's Press.
Petroski, H. 1996. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. HUP: Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Pinney, C. and N. Thomas (eds), 2001. Beyond Aesthetics: Art and the Technologies of Enchantment. Oxford: Berg Publishers.
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Rathje, W.L. 1979. Modern material culture studies. Advances in Archaeological Theory and Method 2:1-37.
Renfrew, C., 2003: Figuring it out. What are we? Where do we come from? The parallel visions of artists and archaeologists, London.
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Schiffer, M. 1991. The Portable Radio in American Life. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Schiffer, M. with A.R. Miller, 1999. The Material Life of Human Beings: Artifacts, Behaviour, and Communication. London: Routledge.
Schnapp, A. 1996 The Discovery of the Past: The Origins of Archaeology. Translated by I. K. a. G. Varndell. British Museum Press, London.
Seamon, D. (editor) 1993 Dwelling, Seeing and Designing. State University of New York Press, Albany.
Serres, M., 1995: Genesis, (tr. G. James and J. Nielson), Ann Arbor.
Shanks, M. 1998. The life of an artifact. Fennoscandia Archeologica 15, 15-42.
Shanks, M. 2004. Three rooms, Journal of Social Archaeology 4(2), 147-180.
Shanks, M. and Tilley, C. 1987a. Reconstructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Shanks, M. and Tilley, C. 1987b. Social Theory and Archaeology. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Stallybrass, P. 1998. Marx’s Coat. In Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces. P. Spyer (ed.) London: Routledge, pp. 183-207.
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Strathern, M. 1999. Property, Substance and Effect: Anthropological Essays in persons and Things. London: Athlone Press.
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Thomas, J. 2004: Archaeology and Modernity. London: Routledge.
Tilley, C. 1991. Material Culture and Text: The Art of Ambiguity. London: Routledge.
Tilley, C., W. Keane, S. Kuechler, M. Rowlands, and P. Spyer (eds) 2005. Handbook of Material Culture. London: SAGE Publishers.
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Wajcman, J. 1991. Feminism Confronts Technology. Blackwell Polity, Cambridge.
Webmoor, T and C. Witmore 2008. Things are Us! A Commentary on Human/Things Relations under the Banner of a ‘Social’ Archaeology. Norwegian Archaeology Review 41(1).
Welsch, W. 1997. Undoing aesthetics. Sage Publications, London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Weschler, L. 1995. Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology. Vintage, New York.
Westermann, M. (ed.) 2005. Anthropologies of Art. Williamstown, Mass: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Witmore, C.L. 2006a. Archaeology and Modernity, or Archaeology and a Modernist Amnesia? Norwegian Archaeology Review 39(1). 49-52.
Witmore, C.L. 2006b. Vision, Media, Noise and the Percolation of Time. Symmetrical Approaches to the Mediation of the Material World. Journal of Material Culture 11(3), pp. 267-292.
Wylie, A. 2002. Thinking from Things. Essays in the Philosophy of Archaeology. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.
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Zielinski, S. 1996 Media archaeology, Available at: [link]
Zielinski, S., T. Druckrey, and G. Custance 2006. Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means, The MIT Press.
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