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The Oxford handbook of history and material culture
Title
The Oxford handbook of history and material culture / edited by Ivan Gaskell and Sarah Anne Carter.
ISBN
9780199398409 (ebook) :
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource (696 pages).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 28, 2020).
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Summary
Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen, made, and used. This book examines how material culture can enhance historians' understanding of the past, both worldwide and across time. The successful use of material culture in history depends on treating material things of many kinds not as illustrations, but as primary evidence. Each kind of material thing requires the application of interpretive skills appropriate to it. These skills overlap with those acquired by scholars in disciplines that may abut history but are often relatively unfamiliar to historians, including anthropology, archaeology, and art history. Historians can adapt and apply the same skills they honed while studying more traditional text-based sources even as they borrow methods from these fields.
Variant and related titles
History and material culture
Oxford handbooks online.
Other formats
Print version :
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 15, 2020
Series
Oxford handbooks online
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
Contents
Food and Cognition: Henry Norwood's A Voyage to Virginia / Bernard L. Herman
On Pins and Needles: Straight Pins, Safety Pins, and Spectacularity / Amber Jamilla Musser
Ebony and Ivory: Pianos, People, Property, and Freedom on the Plantation, 1861-1870 / Dana E. Byrd
The Material Culture of Furniture Production in the British Colonies / Edward S. Cooke Jr.
Cloth and the Rituals of Encounter in La Florida: Weaving and Unraveling the Code / Laura Johnson
Remember Me: Sensibility and the Sacred in Early Mormonism / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Collecting as Historical Practice and the Conundrum of the Unmoored Object / Catherine L. Whalen
Housing History: The Colonial Revival as Consumer Culture / Thomas Denenberg
Material Time / John Robb
The Ever-Changing Technology and Significance of Silk on the Silk Road / Zhao Feng
Boston Electric: Science by “Mail Order” and Bricolage at Colonial Harvard / Sara J. Schechner
Symbolic Things and Social Performance: Christmas Nativity Scenes in Late Nineteenth-Century Santiago de Chile / Olaya Sanfuentes
From Confiscation to Collection: The Objects of China's Cultural Revolution / Denise Y. Ho
Sensiotics or the Study of the Senses in Understandings of Material Culture and History in Africa and Beyond / Henry John Drewal
Mastery, Artifice, and the Natural Order: A Jewel from the Early Modern Pearl Industry / Mónica Domínguez Torres
Artifacts and their Functions / A. W. Eaton
Mind, Time, and Material Engagement / Lambros Malafouris, Chris Gosden
Street “Luxuries”: Food Hawking in Early Modern Rome / Melissa Calaresu
Persons and Things in Marseille and Lucca, 1300-1450 / Daniel Lord Smail
Science, Play, and the Material Culture of Twentieth-Century American Boyhood / Rebecca Onion
Material Culture, Museums and the Creation of Multiple Meanings / Neil G. W. Curtis
Chronology and Time: Northern European Coastal Settlements and Societies, c. 500-1050 / Christopher Loveluck
Mapping History in Clay and Skin: Strategies for Remembrance among Ga'anda of Northeastern Nigeria / Marla C. Berns
Materialities in the Making of World Histories: South Asia and the South Pacific / Sujit Sivasundaram
Making Knowledge Claims in the Eighteenth-Century British Museum / Ivan Gaskell
The Numinous Body and the Symbolism of Human Remains / Christopher Allison
Remaking the Kitchen, 1800-1850 / J. Ritchie Garrison
The Sensory Web of Vision: Enchantment and Agency in Religious Material Culture / David Morgan
Heritage Religion and the Mormons / Colleen McDannell
Words or Things in American History? / Steven Conn.
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