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almahu_9949215518002882
Format:
1 online resource (696 pages).
ISBN:
9780199398409 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks online
Content:
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.
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Food and Cognition: Henry Norwood's A Voyage to Virginia /
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On Pins and Needles: Straight Pins, Safety Pins, and Spectacularity /
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Ebony and Ivory: Pianos, People, Property, and Freedom on the Plantation, 1861-1870 /
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The Material Culture of Furniture Production in the British Colonies /
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Cloth and the Rituals of Encounter in La Florida: Weaving and Unraveling the Code /
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Remember Me: Sensibility and the Sacred in Early Mormonism /
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Collecting as Historical Practice and the Conundrum of the Unmoored Object /
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Housing History: The Colonial Revival as Consumer Culture /
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Material Time /
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The Ever-Changing Technology and Significance of Silk on the Silk Road /
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Boston Electric: Science by (3z (BMail Order (3y (B and Bricolage at Colonial Harvard /
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Symbolic Things and Social Performance: Christmas Nativity Scenes in Late Nineteenth-Century Santiago de Chile /
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From Confiscation to Collection: The Objects of China's Cultural Revolution /
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Sensiotics or the Study of the Senses in Understandings of Material Culture and History in Africa and Beyond /
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Mastery, Artifice, and the Natural Order: A Jewel from the Early Modern Pearl Industry /
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Artifacts and their Functions /
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Mind, Time, and Material Engagement /
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Street (3z (BLuxuries (3y: (B Food Hawking in Early Modern Rome /
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Persons and Things in Marseille and Lucca, 1300-1450 /
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Science, Play, and the Material Culture of Twentieth-Century American Boyhood /
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Material Culture, Museums and the Creation of Multiple Meanings /
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Chronology and Time: Northern European Coastal Settlements and Societies, c. 500-1050 /
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Mapping History in Clay and Skin: Strategies for Remembrance among Ga'anda of Northeastern Nigeria /
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Materialities in the Making of World Histories: South Asia and the South Pacific /
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Making Knowledge Claims in the Eighteenth-Century British Museum /
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The Numinous Body and the Symbolism of Human Remains /
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Remaking the Kitchen, 1800-1850 /
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The Sensory Web of Vision: Enchantment and Agency in Religious Material Culture /
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Heritage Religion and the Mormons /
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Words or Things in American History? /
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780199341764
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
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Sociology
Keywords:
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URL:
Oxford handbooks online
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Oxford handbooks online
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