LEARNING FROM THINGS: METHOD AND THEORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE STUDIES
Written by W. David Kingery
Published by Smithsonian Institution
in 1996
ISBN: 1560986077
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- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- ART HISTORY
- HISTORY
- FOLKLORE
- ANTHROPOLOGY
- ARCHAEOLOGY
LEARNING FROM THINGS: METHOD AND THEORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE STUDIES
Written by W. David Kingery.
Stock no. 1826224
1st.
1996.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A collection of 18 essays linking material culture studies with art history and the history of technology, as well as with archaeology, anthropology, cultural geography, folklore studies, and other fields that use material evidence. Edited by W. David Kingery. Grey cloth spine, black paper boards, black title to spine. x and 262 pages. ISBN: 1560986077. Text block slightly grubby. Light vertical crease to prelims. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is creased to front flap, has the remains of label to rear panel and is lightly scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Part One. Paradigms for Material Culture Studies
- 2. Material/Culture: Can the Farmer and the Cowman Still Be Friends?
- Part Two. Material Culture in the History of Technology
- 3. Learning from Technological Things
- 4. Object Lessons/Object Myths? What Historians of Technology Learn from Things
- 5. Object/ions: Technology, Culture, and Gender
- Part Three. Formation Processes
- 6. Formation Processes of the Historical and Archaeological Records
- 7. Pathways to the Present: In Search of Shirt-:Pocket Radios with Subminiature Tubes
- 8. The Destruction of the Archaeological Heritage and the Formation of Museum Collections: The Case of Denmark
- 9. Passionate Possession: The Formation of Private Collections
- 10. Formation Processes of Ethnographic Collections: Examples from the Great Basin of Western North America
- 11. The Formation of Anthropological Archival Records
- Part Four. Materials Science in Material Culture Studies
- 12. A Role for Materials Science
- 13. Materials Science and Material Culture
- 14. Optical and Electron Microscopy in Material Culture Studies
- 15. Dating, Provenance, and Usage in Material Culture Studies