Culture
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These books explore the objects, customs, words, places, and assumptions that shape everyday life. They look closely at familiar things to reveal the histories, relationships, values, and meanings carried within them.
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EMOJISA field guide to the small symbols that have transformed human language. From faces and gestures to food, animals, and objects, emojis carry emotion, tone, humor, identity, and social meaning across cultures, creating a new visual language for the digital world.
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THE PEACE SIGNA field guide to one of the world’s most recognizable symbols. Tracing its journey through protest, popular culture, fashion, vehicles, and everyday life, the book explores how a simple mark came to express hope, resistance, freedom, and the enduring human wish for peace.
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NOSES-Same & DifferentA field guide to the ordinary feature at the center of every face. Through anatomy, family resemblance, beauty, language, prejudice, breath, and belonging, NOSES reveals how people can be unmistakably different while sharing the same basic human form.
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Every word, gesture, and symbol carries a little piece of culture.
Things & Meaning
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Ordinary objects are never entirely ordinary. Walking sticks, toilet seats, underground homes, and other familiar things reveal how people solve problems, adapt to their surroundings, and give practical life cultural meaning.
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The Potty: A Field Guide to Toilet Seat
A close look at one of the most ordinary objects in human life. Toilet seats reveal surprising stories about privacy, comfort, design, embarrassment, manners, and bodily necessity—showing how even the humblest object can open a door into culture.
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WESTYA field guide to the beloved Volkswagen camper and the culture that grew around it. Through design, repair, travel, ritual, nostalgia, freedom, and roadside life, WESTY treats the van not simply as a vehicle, but as a small moving civilization.
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Our Shared World
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Culture becomes visible when people leave the house. Markets, cafés, streets, vehicles, games, and gathering places show how strangers cooperate, compete, trade, travel, and create community in public.
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Shut Up and DealMen, Cafes, and. the 52-Card Deck.
Shut Up and Deal is a Roving Anthropologist field guide to cards, cafés, men, ritual, luck, bluffing, magic, silence, and the strange social theater of the 52-card deck—an ordinary pack of paper that reveals how people gather, compete, joke, hide, reveal, and belong. |
A Field Guide to the MarketA field guide to one of civilization's most familiar places, where shopping carts, checkout lines, bananas, and bargain bins tell the larger story of human life.
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