Title & Author:

American material culture : the shape of the field / edited by Ann Smart Martin and J. Ritchie Garrison.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Winterthur, Del. : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum ; Knoxville, Tenn. : Distributed by University of Tennessee Press, ©1997.

Description:

vii, 428 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

A Winterthur book

Notes:
Papers from a conference held Oct. 1993, sponsored by the Winterthur Museum.
Includes bibliographical references.
Shaping the field : the multidscplinary 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 [and others] -- 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.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"The fourteen essays in this volume provide an important cross section of new research on the current state of American material culture scholarship. From Tupperware to stuffed owls, modern dolls to colonial portraits, the subjects that the authors study demonstrate that things provoke and sustain human dramas. The essays illustrate the complexity of the field and the ways it is changing; how ethnicity is displayed, creolized, or reinvigorated in border zones of cultural contact; how objects are both mirrors and lenses for gendered constructions; and how differing experiences with the environment alter objects even as objects alter the environment. The authors of this volume consider not only the historic uses of objects but also the continued creation of new meanings with things."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0912724358
9780912724355

Subject:

Material culture United States Congresses.
Americana Congresses.
Culture matérielle États-Unis Congrès.
Americana Congrès.
Americana
Manners and customs
Material culture
Sachkultur
Kongress
Material culture United States.
United States Social life and customs Congresses.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes Congrès.
United States
USA

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Martin, Ann Smart, 1960-
Garrison, J. Ritchie, 1951-
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
Winterthur book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204668
Call No.: E161 .A388 1997
Status: Available