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Students are encouraged to use the following resources for their assignments. Those marked with an asterix* are highly recommended for research and additional reading.

COLLECTING & CURATING

*Russel Belk, Collecting in a Consumer Society, Routledge, 2001 Tony Bennett, The Birth of the Museum, Routledge, 1995
Phillip Blom, To Have and To Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting, Overlook TP, 2004
*Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Routledge, 1984
John Elsner and Roger Cardinal (eds.), The Cultures of Collecting, Reaktion Books, 1994
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, Yale University Press, 2007
Marilynn Gelfman Karp, In Flagrante Collecto (Caught in the Act of Collecting), Henry Abrahms, 2006
William Davies King, Collections of Nothing, University of Chicago Press, 2009
Nicolas Lémery, Modern Curiosities of Art & Nature, 1685
*Paula Marincola (ed.), What Makes a Great Exhibition?, Reaktion Books, 2007
Phyllis Mauch Messenger (ed.), The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property?, University of New Mexico Press, 1999
*Patrick Mauries, Cabinets of Curiosities, Thames & Hudson, 2002
Susan Pearce, On Collecting: An Investigation into Collecting in the European Tradition, Routledge, 1999
*Steven Rand and Heather Kouris (eds.), Cautionary Tales: Critical Curating, apexart, 2007
Adrian Quan, Tables, boxes, screens, cabinets, Black Dog, 2008
*Barbara Maria Stafford and Frances Turpak, Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen, Getty, 2001
Susan Stewart, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection, Duke University Press, 1993
*Carolee Thea and Thomas Micchelli (eds.), On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators, Distributed Art Publishers, 2010

MATERIAL & VISUAL CULTURE

Arjun Appaduri, The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 1988
Raland Barthes, Camera Lucida, Hill & Wang, 1982
Jane Bennett, A Political Ecology of Things, Duke University Press, 2010
Deirdre Brown and Brian Brake, Introducing Maori Art, Reed, 2005
Willem Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography, Reaktion, Books, 2000
*Joshua Glenn and Carol Hayes (eds.), Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007
Mark Gottdiener, Postmodern Semiotics: Material culture and the forms of postmodern life, Blackwell, 1995
Nicky Gregson and Louise Crewe, Second-hand Cultures, Berg, 2003
Daniel Miller, Materiality, Duke University Press, 2005
Daniel Miller, Stuff, Polity, 2009
Daniel Miller, The Comfort of Things, Polity, 2009
Sarah Pink, The Future of Visual Anthropology: Engaging the Senses, Routledge, 2006
Susan Sontag, On Photography, Picador, 2001
*Marita Sturkin and Lisa Cartwright, Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture, Oxford University Press, 2009
Jeremy Tanner (ed.), The Sociology of Art: A Reader, Routledge, 2003
Te Papa, Icons ngā taonga: From the Collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Te Papa Press, 2004
*Sherry Turkle, Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, MIT Press, 2004
*Ian Woodward, Understanding Material Culture, Sage, 2007

FOOD, DESIGN & CULTURE

Geoff Andrews, The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure, McGill University Press, 2008
Paco Asensio and Oscar Asensio (eds.) Food Design, Te Neues, 2005
David Beriss and David Sutton (eds.), The Restaurants Book: Ethnographies of Where We Eat, Berg, 2007
Anne Bower (ed.), Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film, Routledge, 2004
*Claire Catterall, Food: Design and Culture, Lawrence King, 1999
Sarah Coffin (ed.), Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005, Assouline, 2006
*Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik (eds.) Food and Culture, Routledge, 2008
*Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard & Pierre Mayol, The Practice of Everyday Life, Vol 2: Living and Cooking, University of Minnesota Press, 1998
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food, Free Press, 2002
Marco Ferreri, Cutlery, Corraini, 1997
Karen Franck, Food + Architecture, Academy Press, 2003
June Freeman, The Making of the Modern Kitchen, Berg, 2004
Antonio Gardoni (ed.) Food by Design, Booth-Clibborn, 2002
*Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture (Don’t miss their “Food on Film” page!)
Marvin Harris, Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture, Simon & Schuster, 1985
James Keller, Food, Film and Culture, McFarland and Co, 2006
*Robert Klanten and Sven Ehmann (eds.), CrEATe: Eating Design and Future Food, Verlag, 2009
Tim Lang and Michael Heasman, Food Wars: The Global Battle for Minds, Mouths, and Markets, Earthscan, 2004
Stephen Mennell, Anne Murcott and Anneke H. van Otterloo (eds.), The Sociology of Food: Eating, Diet, and Culture, Sage, 1992
*Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio, Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, Material World, 2007
Massimo Montanari, Food is Culture, Columbia University Press, 2006
Fabio Parasecoli, Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture, Berg, 2008
Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food, Penguin, 2009
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Penguin, 2007
*Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter, Food Design XL, Springer, 2009
Marije Vogelzang, Eat Love: Food Concepts by Eating-Designer Marije Vogelzang, BIS Publishers, 2009
James L. Watson and Melissa L. Caldwell (eds.), The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating, Blackwell, 2005