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Folklife studies from the gilded age : object, rite, and custom in Victorian America

Title
Folklife studies from the gilded age : object, rite, and custom in Victorian America / edited by Simon J. Bronner.
Publication
Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, ©1987.

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Additional Authors
Bronner, Simon J.
Description
xiv, 291 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
American material culture and folklife
Uniform Title
American material culture and folklife.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1887-1907
  • Geschichte 1865-1918
  • 1865-1918
  • Material culture > United States
  • Folklore > United States
  • Ethnology > United States
  • Ethnology
  • Folklore
  • Manners and customs
  • Material culture
  • Kultur
  • Quelle
  • Sachkultur
  • Volkskunde
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • United States > Social life and customs > 1865-1918
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
pt. 1. Doctrines and guides: The natural history of folklore (1891) / Otis T. Mason -- Notes on folklore collecting (1890, 1893) / Fletcher S. Bassett, Philadelphia Chapter of the American Folklore Scoiety -- pt. 2. Groups and their customs: Folklore of the Pennsylvania Germans (1888) / W.J. Hoffman -- Folk custom and medicine of Chinese Americans (1887, 1890) / Stewart Culin -- "A retarded frontier": Appalachian material culture and folklife (1898) / George E. Vincent -- Folklife of American children (1893, 1896) / Fanny D. Bergen -- "Manual concepts": observations among the Zun̄i Indians (1892) / Frank Hamilton Cushing -- pt. 3. Types of objects and rites: Primitive American art and ornament (1900) / Stewart Culin -- Folk decoration of Southern Black graves (1891, 1892) / H. Carrington Bolton, Ernest Ingersoll -- Primitive inventions (1903) / George Wharton James -- Folk foods of the Rio Grande Valley and of Northern Mexico (1895) / John G. Bourke -- pt. 4. Interpretations from museums and collections: Traps of the "Amerinds": classification and study of folk technology from the vantage of the museum (1900) / Otis T. Mason -- Sacred objects of the Navajo rites (1893) / Washington Matthews -- "Object lessons": a folk museum and exhibit of games in the Columbian World's Exposition (1890, 1893) / Stewart Culin -- "Tools of the nation maker": toward a historical interpretation of American folklife (1897, 1907) / Henry C. Mercer.
ISBN
  • 0835718379
  • 9780835718370
LCCN
87025509
OCLC
  • ocm16718366
  • 16718366
  • SCSB-1195667
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library