Herman, Bernard L., 1951-2024

The stolen house / Bernard L. Herman.

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1992.

xii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"The Stolen House describes and interprets the way in which individuals -- in this case a specific community living on the margin of an enormous swamp -- used artifacts to signify complex networks of social relationships. The social relationships signified extend beyond those between the actors in the petty drama before us and into the way in which people communicated connections in a broader landscape and society. Functioning in an economic as well as cultural system, the objects as signifiers possessed real monetary value in addition to the investiture of meaning -- the signified of semiotics and the narrative of semantics. Our purpose is not to explicate the Christopher orphans' court case but to understand the importance of objects as historic evidence and as the points around which certain modes of social discourse turn."--Page 3.

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Christopher family.
Jacobs family.
Christopher (Family)
Jacobs (Family)
Material culture Delaware.
Administration of estates Social aspects Delaware History.
Culture matérielle Delaware.
Administration successorale Aspect social Delaware Histoire.
Manners and customs
Material culture
Social conditions
Delaware Social life and customs.
Delaware Social conditions.
Delaware Mœurs et coutumes.
Delaware Conditions sociales.
Delaware
United States, Delaware Social life and customs.
Administration Social Delaware History
Christopher Family
Jacobs Family
Material Delaware

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Location: Library main 323605
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