Name/Title
Material Culture Studies in AmericaEntry/Object ID
2011.002.030Description
Contents: Material culture studies in America, 1876-1976 -- American studies: words or things -- The challenge of the artifact -- Manuscripts and manufacts -- The use of objects in historical research -- Culture, history, and artifact -- Folk art -- The connoisseurship of artifacts -- The six requirements for design -- Artifact study: a proposed model -- Axioms for reading the landscape: some guides to the American scene -- Pop pedagogy: looking at the Coke bottle -- Death's head, cherub, urn and willow -- Meaning in artifacts: hall furnishings in Victorian America -- The "Industrial Revolution" in the home: household technology and social change in the twentieth century -- Building in wood in the eastern United States: a time-place perspective -- The service station in America: evolution of a vernacular form -- An Indiana subsistence craftsman -- Monuments and myths: three American arches -- Chicago through a camera lens: an essay on photography as history -- Embellishing a life of labor: an interpretation of material culture of American working-class homes, 1885-1915 -- Immaterial material culture: the implications of experimental research for folklife museums -- In praise of archaeology: Le Projet du Garbage -- Tin can archaeology -- Material culture studies in America: a bibliographical essay.
xvi, 419 p. ; 24 cm. (softcover)Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation LibraryAcquisition
Accession
2011.002.Source or Donor
New Library Catalog Records (2011)Acquisition Method
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Nomenclature 4.0
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Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Material culture--United States--Study and teaching, Material culture--United States, Archaeology and history--United States, United States--Civilization--Study and teaching, United States--Social life and customs--Study and teaching, United States--Civilization, United States--Social life and customsBook Details
Author
Schlereth, Thomas J.Publisher
American Association for State and Local HistoryDate Published
1982Call No.
E169.1 .M416 1982ISBN
0910050678LCCN
82008812Location
Category
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Category
PermanentGeneral Notes
Note
Notes: Compiled and edited, with introductions and bibliography, by Thomas J. Schlereth.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-352) and index.Created By
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