1.   Distinction does not provide a theory of either consumption or material culture as the form of modern culture.

2.   The other grave goods provide what little evidence we have for the economic basis and material culture of its population.

3.   Is software, asks Swade, material culture?

4.   This article attempts to locate software as an artefact in the material culture of museums and explores some of our preconceptions and expectations for a software preservation programme.

5.   Material culture and aesthetics are outwards manifestations of a culture, and these give an indication of how consumers in a particular culture behave.

6.   America may have been the juggernaut of the world, but its material culture paled in comparison to places like Baghdad and Istanbul.

7.   But more recently the motivations of collectors have become a hot topic among academics as part of an intensifying focus on material culture and consumerism.

8.   In what is now Venezuela, Humboldt systematically investigated the Orinoco River, one of the longest in South America, and the material culture of its Indian societies.

9.   Others contain glimpses of material culture, anonymously made functional objects with fascinating histories of their own.

10.   Recently, the motivations of collectors have become a hot topic among academics as part of an intensifying focus on material culture and consumerism.