1. Introduction, Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry
Part One: Disciplinary Perspectives
2. The Material-Cultural Turn, Dan Hicks
3. Material Geographies, Ian Cook and Divya Tolia-Kelly
4. Folklife, Robert St. George
5. Material Histories, Ann Stahl
6. The Materials of STS, John Law
Part Two: Material Practices
7. Material Culture and the Dance of Agency, Andrew Pickering
8. Consumption, Michael Dietler
9. Fieldwork and Collecting, Gavin Lucas
10. Gifts and Exchange, Hirokazu Miyazaki
11. Art as Action, Art as Evidence, Howard Morphy
12. Archaeological Assemblages and Practices of Deposition, Rosemary Joyce with Joshua Pollard
Part Three: Objects and Humans
13. Technology ande Material Life, Kacy L. Hollenback and Michael B. Schiffer
14. The Malice of Inanimate Objects: Material Agency, Andy Jones & Nicole Boivin
15. 'Personhood' and Identity, Chris Fowler
16. Materiality and Embodiment, Zoe Crossland
17. Material Culture in Primates, Tatyana Hulme
Part Four: Landscapes and the Built Environment
18. Cultural Landscapes, Lesley Head
19. Ecological Landscapes, Sarah Whatmore and Steve Hinchliffe
20. Urban Materialities: Meaning, Magnitude, Friction, and Outcomes, Roland Fletcher
21. Architecture and Cultural History, Carl Lounsbury
22. Households and 'Home Cultures', Victor Buchli
Part Five: Studying Particular Things
23. Stone Tools, Rodney Harrison
24. The Landscape Garden as Material Culture: Lessons from France, Chandra Mukerji
25. Built Objects, Douglass W. Bailey and Lesley McFadyen
26. Ceramics (as Containers), Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris, and Peter Tomkins
27. Magical Things: On Fetishes, Commodities, and Computers, Peter J. Pels
Afterword: Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'Be: Thinking Through Material Thinking as Placing and Arrangement, Nigel Thrift