The Oxford handbook of history and material culture / edited by Ivan Gaskell and Sarah Anne Carter.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Description
1 online resource (696 pages).

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Series
Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]
Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Target audience
Specialized.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 28, 2020).
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 (3z (BMail Order (3y (B 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 / Mâonica Domâinguez Torres
  • Artifacts and their Functions / A. W. Eaton
  • Mind, Time, and Material Engagement / Lambros Malafouris, Chris Gosden
  • Street (3z (BLuxuries (3y: (B 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.
Other title(s)
History and material culture
ISBN
  • 9780197500132
  • 0197500137
  • 9780197500125
  • 0197500129
  • 9780199398409
  • 0199398402
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