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American material culture : the shape of the field
- Title
- American material culture : the shape of the field / edited by Ann Smart Martin and J. Ritchie Garrison.
- Publication
- Winterthur, Del. : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum ; Knoxville, Tenn. : Distributed by University of Tennessee Press, c1997.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | IAG 99-9623 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- vii, 428 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Papers from a conference held Oct. 1993, sponsored by the Winterthur Museum.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Shaping the field : the multidisciplinary perspectives of material culture / Ann Smart Martin, J. Ritchie Garrison -- American difference revisited : the case of the American axe / Gary Kulik -- The bricoleur revisited / Bernard L. Herman -- Material culture as rhetoric : "animal artifacts" as a case study / Katherine C. Grier -- Getting ready : doll play and real life in American culture, 1900-1980 / Dorothy K. Washburn - Material culture as text : review and reform of the literacy model for interpretation / Pauline K. Eversmann ... [et al.] -- Textualizing technics : owner's manuals and the reading of objects / Joseph J. Corn -- The social meanings of portrait miniatures in Philadelphia, 1760-1820 / Anne Verplanck -- Tupperware : product as social relation / Alison J. Clarke -- Leather stockings and hunting shirts / Linda R. Baumgarten -- Inventing comfort : the Piazza / John E. Crowley -- Archaeological perspectives on material culture and ethnicity / James Gregory Cusick -- Material culture and the performance of sociocultural identity : community, ethnicity, and agency in the burial practices at the First African Baptist Church cemeteries, Philadelphia, 1810-41 / John P. McCarthy -- Evaluating exhibitions : history museums and material culture / Ellen Paul Denker -- Material culture history : the scholarship nobody knows / Cary Carson.
- Call Number
- IAG 99-9623
- ISBN
- 0912724358
- LCCN
- 97011132
- OCLC
- 36649124
- Title
- American material culture : the shape of the field / edited by Ann Smart Martin and J. Ritchie Garrison.
- Imprint
- Winterthur, Del. : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum ; Knoxville, Tenn. : Distributed by University of Tennessee Press, c1997.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Martin, Ann Smart, 1960-Garrison, J. Ritchie, 1951-Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
- Research Call Number
- IAG 99-9623