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Author | : Ann Smart Martin |
Publisher | : Winterthur Museum |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
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The fourteen essays in this volume provide an important cross section of new research on the current state of American material culture scholarship. From Tupperware to stuffed owls, modern dolls to colonial portraits, the subjects that the authors study demonstrate that things provoke and sustain human dramas.
Author | : Helen Sheumaker |
Publisher | : ABC-CLIO |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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"You can tell a lot about people by looking at their stuff - the things they make, process, and value. That is the idea that drives the field of material culture, in which scholars explore the meaning of objects of a given society. This book is the first encyclopedia to look at the study of material culture and what it reveals about life in the United States."--Jacket.
Author | : Thomas J. Schlereth |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780761991601 |
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The country's leading authority on use of artifactual evidence in historical research collects twenty-five classic essays and gives his overview of the field of material culture.
Author | : Simon J. Bronner |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813182743 |
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America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects. In Pennsylvania, the "back to the city" housing movement causes a conflict of cultures. In Indiana, an old tradition of butchering turtles for church picnics evokes both pride and loathing among residents. In New York, folk-art exhibits raise choruses of adoration and protest. These are a few of the examples Simon Bronner uses to illustrate the ways Americans physically and mentally grasp things. Bronner moves beyond the usual discussions of form and variety in America's folk material culture to explain historical influences on, and the social consequences of, channeling folk culture into a mass society.
Author | : Edith Mayo |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780879723033 |
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The use of objects as source materials for scholarship has been increasingly legitimized by the growth of American Studies programs which are now in the forefront in their work with objects. The use of the museum as a primary resource is currently being given a position of increasing importance in American Studies scholarship.
Author | : Richard A. Gould |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2014-06-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1483299201 |
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Modern Material Culture
Author | : Allison Paige Burkette |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027267944 |
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This innovative and provocative work introduces complexity theory and its application to both the study of language and the study of material culture. The book begins with a wide-ranging theoretical background, covering the areas of dialect geography, the anthropological study of material culture, and a general introduction to the study of complex adaptive systems. Following this general introduction, the principles of complexity theory are demonstrated in data drawn from linguistics and material culture studies. Language and Material Culture further highlights the principles of complexity through a series of case studies, using data from the Linguistic Atlas, colonial American inventories and the Historic American Building Survey. LMC shows that language and material culture are intertwined as they interact within the same cultural complex system. The book is designed for students in courses that focus on language variation, American English and material culture, in addition to general courses on applications of complex systems.
Author | : Arnold J. Bauer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2001-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521777025 |
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Explores the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years.
Author | : John Styles |
Publisher | : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Download Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Between 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. The British Atlantic was an empire of goods, held together not just by political authority and a common language, but by a shared material culture nourished by constant flows of commodities. Diets expanded to include exotic luxuries such as tea and sugar, the fruits of mercantile and colonial expansion. Homes were furnished with novel goods, like clocks and earthenware teapots, the products of British industrial ingenuity. This groundbreaking book compares these developments in Britain and North America, bringing together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars to consider basic questions about women, men, and objects in these regions. In asking who did the shopping, how things were used, and why they became the subject of political dispute, the essays show the profound significance of everyday objects in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Author | : Alan Ferg |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1987-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780816510283 |
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This volume describes in detail two collections of Western Apache artifacts from east-central Arizona. The materials, belonging to the Arizona State Museum, range in age from the mid-1800's to the present and represent a thorough cross-section of tools, clothing, religious paraphernalia, and games.