"This is a readable and useful volume that covers a range of topics. . . the book makes a contribution to an interesting field that will no doubt become even more important as the visuality of culture continues to take central stage. . . . The editors of Cultural icons have collated a number of essays that deal with a variety of international icons that have accrued distinct cultural meanings. Although the origins of the icons discussed can be located in diverse places such as South Africa, Denmark, France, Norway, Austria and Britain, it is clear that the iconicity that the various authors examine transcends borders. Indeed, one of the strong points of this volume is the way in which the authors demonstrate how localised cultural icons are taken up, mediated, appropriated and even recontextualized. Not only have the cultural icons discussed here become potent intertexts, but they have also become part of the network of significations that characterise contemporary westernised society. Another laudable aspect of this book is that the authors have provided thorough historical contexts for their semiotic unpacking of the cultural icons, thereby adding to the academic rigour and value of the project."

-Jeanne van Eeden, Visual Anthropology