Material Culture
Material Culture
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Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life
What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects after the check-out reveal about people ...Read more
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The End Is Near: Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia : Works from the American Visionary Art Museum
The End is Near maps the millennial fervor that haunts our consciousness as the impending hour draws...Read more
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The Social Life of Things
Contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultur...Read more
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The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
Using objects that Americans have saved through the centuries and stories they have passed along, as...Read more
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The End is Near!: Visions of Apocalpse, Millennium, and Utopia
“An exciting, monumental, first-rate book devoted to a universal phenomenon whose time has come at...Read more
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Material Life in America, 1600-1860 Material Life in America, 1600-1860 Material Life in America, 1600-1860 Material Life in America, 1600-1860 Material Life in
Defining material culture in its broadest sense by placing artifacts in the context of social relati...Read more
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American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the legitimacy of American capitalism seems unchallenged. T...Read more
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Design For Life
Produced in cooperation with the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution to ma...Read more
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Materiality
Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religio...Read more
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The Potter's Art (Material Culture (Indiana University, Bloomington).)
"Coming into being, the work of art, this very pot, creates relations--relations between nature and ...Read more
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Material Culture
History and art connect in the study of material culture. Material culture records human intrusion i...Read more
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Alabama Folk Pottery
Celebrating the people, techniques, and artistry of a traditional craft. Based on 20 years’ resea...Read more