Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Riggins, Stephen Harold -- Part I The dialogic object: Artifacts as agents and processes -- The genuine article / Douglas, Mary -- Glorious obsessions, passionate lovers, and hidden treasures: Collecting, metaphor, and the Romantic ethic / Danet, Brenda / Katriel, Tamar -- Objects and their maker: Bricolage of the self / Mark, Vera -- Fieldwork in the living room: An autoethnographic essay / Riggins, Stephen Harold -- Bridewealth revisited / Park, George -- Melanesian artifacts as cultural markers: A micro-anthropological study / Stanley, Nick -- Part II The built environment and the political ecology of artifacts -- The logic of the mall / Shields, Rob -- The ideological commodification of culture: Architectural heritage and domestic tourism in Japan / Ehrentraut, Adolf -- "Take home Canada": Representations of aboriginal peoples as tourist souvenirs / Blundell, Valda -- Objects, texts, and practices: The refrigerator in consumer discourses between the wars / Grahame, Peter R. -- Communicating democracy: Or shine, perishing republic / Halton, Eugene -- Part III Clothing and adornment: The skin of culture -- Are artifacts texts? Lithuanian woven sashes as social and cosmic transactions / Vastokas, Joan M. -- Feathers and fringes: A semiotic approach to powwow dancers' regalia / Kérisit, Michèle -- Navajo weaving as sacred metaphor / M'Closkey, Kathy -- What is a t-shirt? Codes, chronotypes, and everyday objects / Cullum-Swan, Betsy / Manning, Peter K. -- Interpreted, circulating, interpreting: The three dimensions of the clothing object / Corrigan, Peter -- Psychoanalytic jewels: The domestic drama of Dora and Freud / O'Neill, John -- Subject Index -- Name Index