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Preface : on studying the things they left behind ; Material culture studies in America, 1876-1976 / Thomas J. Schlereth

American studies : words or things? / John A. Kouwenhoven

The challenge of the artifact / William B. Hesseltine

Manuscripts and manufacts / Wilcomb E. Washburn

The use of objects in historical research / John T. Schlebecker

Culture, history, and artifact / Steven M. Beckow

Folk art / Henry Glassie

The connoisseurship of artifacts / Charles F. Montgomery

The six requirements for design / David Pye

Artifact study : a proposed model / E. McClung Fleming

Axioms for reading the landscape : some guides to the American scene / Peirce F. Lewis

Pop pedagogy : looking at the coke bottle / Craig Gilborn

Death's head, cherub, urn and willow / James Deetz and Edwin S. Dethlefsen

Meaning in artifacts : hall furnishings in Victorian America / Kenneth L. Ames

The "industrial revolution" in the home : household technology and social change in the twentieth century / Ruth Schwartz Cowan.

Building in wood in the Eastern United States : a time-place perspective / Fred Kniffen and Henry Glassie

The service station in America : the evolution of a vernacular form / Bruce A. Lohof

An Indiana subsistence craftsman / Willard B. Moore

Monuments and myths : three American arches / Joseph F. Trimmer

Chicago through a camera lens : an essay on photography as history / Glen E. Holt

Embellishing a life of labor : an interpretation of the material culture of American working-class homes, 1885-1915 / Lizabeth A. Cohen

Immaterial material culture : the implications of experimental research for folklife museums / Jay A. Anderson

In praise of archaeology : le projet du garbage / William L. Rahje

Tin* can archaeology / Robert Ascher

Material culture studies in America : a selective bibliographical essay / Thomas J. Schlereth.

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