Material Culture Studies in America

Material Culture Studies in America

Author: Thomas J. Schlereth

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 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.


The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies

Author: Dan Hicks

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2010-09-02

Total Pages: 794

ISBN-13: 0199218714

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Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook makes accessible a full range of theoretical and applied approaches to the study of material culture, and the place of materiality in social theory, presenting current thinking about material culture from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, geography, and science and technology studies.


Material Culture in America

Material Culture in America

Author: Helen Sheumaker

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13:

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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.


Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830

Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830

Author: John Styles

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13:

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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.


Elusive Archives

Elusive Archives

Author: Martin Brückner

Publisher: Material Culture Perspectives

Published: 2021-08-27

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781644532249

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Elusive Archives asks how historians, librarians, and museum professionals can bring together scattered, lost, or otherwise forgotten objects into a provisional collection, an elusive archive. Addressing a wide range of objects, the authors' diverse approaches, varying formats, and broad scope of inquiries describe a new conceptual territory at the intersection of archival studies and material culture studies.


A Material World

A Material World

Author: George W. Boudreau

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780271081151

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A collection of essays that examine early American cultural, political, and social history through a material lens, exploring the meanings of objects ranging from artworks and domestic furnishings to Penn's Treaty Tree.


Material Culture in America

Material Culture in America

Author: Helen Sheumaker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2007-11-07

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 1576076482

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The first encyclopedia to look at the study of material culture (objects, images, spaces technology, production, and consumption), and what it reveals about historical and contemporary life in the United States. Reaching back 400 years, Material Life in America: An Encyclopedia is the first reference showing what the study of material culture reveals about American society—revelations not accessible through traditional sources and methods. In nearly 200 entries, the encyclopedia traces the history of artifacts, concepts and ideas, industries, peoples and cultures, cultural productions, historical forces, periods and styles, religious and secular rituals and traditions, and much more. Everyone from researchers and curators to students and general readers will find example after example of how the objects and environments created or altered by humans reveal as much about American life as diaries, documents, and texts.