Books in the Materializing Culture series

From road rage in Western Europe to the struggles of cab driving in Africa to the emergence of Black identity in the US, this book examines the humanity of the car, which includes the jealousies, gender differences, fears and moralities that cars give rise to. It provides an informed sense of cars as a significant form of material culture.

Malanggan are "death" figures found in the Pacific which continue to confound anthropologists, they are intended to decompose as symbolic representations of the dead. This work interprets these mysterious agents of resemblance and connection as having a cognitive rather than linguistic basis.