History from Things Essays on Material Culture

Name: History from Things Essays on Material Culture
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ISBN: 9781560986133

ISBN-10: 1560986131

ISBN-13: 9781560986133

Edition: 1995 (Reprint)

Authors: Stephen Lubar, David W. Kingery

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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 9/17/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction



The Truth of Material Culture: History or Fiction?



Why We Need Things



Objects as Instruments, Objects as Signs



Some Matters of Substance



The Ancestry of Chinese Bronze Vessels



The Interpretation of Artifacts in the History of Technology



Gardens and Society in Eighteenth-Century England



Common Landscapes as Historic Documents



The New England Cemetery as a Cultural Landscape



Artifacts as Expressions of Society and Culture: Subversive Genealogy and the Value of History



Why Take a Behavioral Approach to Folk Objects?



Machine Politics: The Political Construction of Technological Artifacts



Technological Systems and Some Implications with Regard to Continuity and Change



Replication Techniques in Eastern Zhou Bronze Casting



Technological Styles: Transforming a Natural Material Into a Cultural Object



The Biography of an Object: The Intercultural Style Vessels of the Third Millennium B.C.



The Sign of the Object



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