Title & Author:

Material culture studies in America / compiled and edited, with introductions and bibliography, by Thomas J. Schlereth.

Publication:

Nashville, Tennessee : American Association for State and Local History, 1982.
©1982

Description:

xvi, 419 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-352) and index.
Preface : on studying the things they left behind ; Material culture studies in America, 1876-1976 / Thomas J. Schlereth -- American studies : words or things? / John A. Kouwenhoven -- The challenge of the artifact / William B. Hesseltine -- Manuscripts and manufacts / Wilcomb E. Washburn -- The use of objects in historical research / John T. Schlebecker -- Culture, history, and artifact / Steven M. Beckow -- Folk art / Henry Glassie -- The connoisseurship of artifacts / Charles F. Montgomery -- The six requirements for design / David Pye -- Artifact study : a proposed model / E. McClung Fleming -- Axioms for reading the landscape : some guides to the American scene / Peirce F. Lewis -- Pop pedagogy : looking at the coke bottle / Craig Gilborn -- Death's head, cherub, urn and willow / James Deetz and Edwin S. Dethlefsen -- Meaning in artifacts : hall furnishings in Victorian America / Kenneth L. Ames -- The "industrial revolution" in the home : household technology and social change in the twentieth century / Ruth Schwartz Cowan.
Building in wood in the Eastern United States : a time-place perspective / Fred Kniffen and Henry Glassie -- The service station in America : the evolution of a vernacular form / Bruce A. Lohof -- An Indiana subsistence craftsman / Willard B. Moore -- Monuments and myths : three American arches / Joseph F. Trimmer -- Chicago through a camera lens : an essay on photography as history / Glen E. Holt -- Embellishing a life of labor : an interpretation of the material culture of American working-class homes, 1885-1915 / Lizabeth A. Cohen -- Immaterial material culture : the implications of experimental research for folklife museums / Jay A. Anderson -- In praise of archaeology : le projet du garbage / William L. Rahje -- Tin* can archaeology / Robert Ascher -- Material culture studies in America : a selective bibliographical essay / Thomas J. Schlereth.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0910050678 (pbk.)
9780910050678 (pbk.)
0910050619 (hard)
9780910050616 (hard)

Subject:

Material culture Study and teaching United States.
Material culture United States.
Archaeology and history United States.
Industries United States.
Culture matérielle Étude et enseignement États-Unis.
Culture matérielle États-Unis.
Archéologie et histoire États-Unis.
Industrie États-Unis.
71.56 material culture (sociology)
15.85 history of America.
Industries
Archaeology and history
Civilization
Civilization Study and teaching
Manners and customs
Manners and customs Study and teaching
Material culture
Material culture Study and teaching
Sachkultur
Materiële cultuur.
Vakbeoefening.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Dagelijks leven.
Antropologia Cult Social.
United States Civilization Study and teaching.
United States Social life and customs Study and teaching.
United States Civilization.
United States Social life and customs.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes Étude et enseignement.
États-Unis Civilisation Étude et enseignement.
États-Unis Civilisation.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes.
United States
USA

Added entries:

Schlereth, Thomas J.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 18920
Call No.: ID:87-B618
Status: Available