Book ID: CBB001180821

Learning from things: Method and theory of material culture studies (1996)

unapi

Kingery, W. D. (Editor)


Smithsonian Institution Press


Publication Date: 1996
Physical Details: x + 262 pp.; ill.; maps
Language: English

Description Contents: Introduction / David Kingery -- Material/culture: Can the farmer and the cowman still be friends? / Jules D. Prown -- Learning from technological things / Steven Lubar -- Object lessons/object myths? What historians learn from things / Joseph J. Corn -- Object/ions: Technology, culture, and gender / Ruth Oldenziel -- Formation processes of the historical and archaeological records / Michael Brian Schiffer -- Pathways to the present: In search of shirt-pocket radios with subminiature tubes / Michael Brian Schiffer -- Destruction of the archaeological heritage and the formation of museum collections: The case of Denmark / Kristian Kristiansen -- Passionate possession: The formation of private collections / Marjorie Akin. Formation processes of ethnographic collections: Examples from the Great Basin of western North America / Catherine S. Fowler and Don D. Fowler -- Formation of anthropological archival records / Nancy J. Parezo -- Role for materials science / W. David Kingery -- Materials science and material culture / W. David Kingery -- Optical and electron microscopy in material culture studies / David Killick -- Dating, provenance, and usage in material culture studies / Michael S. Tite. (From WorldCat)


Includes Chapters

Chapter Schiffer, Michael Brian (1996) Pathways to the present: In search of shirt-pocket radios with subminiature tubes. In: Learning from things: Method and theory of material culture studies (p. 81). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Oliart, Camila
Enrique Aragon
Standley, Eleanor R.
Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi
Haak, Wolfgang
Almudena Hernando Gonzalo
Journals
Historical Archaeology
Antiquity
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
History and Anthropology
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Cambridge University Press
Biblis
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Wiley-Blackwell
University of Washington Press
Concepts
Archaeology
Material culture
Anthropology
Embodiment; corporeality
Historical archaeology
Antiquities
People
Haüy, René Just
Time Periods
19th century
Medieval
Ancient
20th century, early
Stone age
Song Dynasty (China, 960-1279)
Places
Rome (Italy)
Great Britain
Guam
Anatolia (Turkey)
Mediterranean region
Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.)
Institutions
Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS)
Pitt Rivers Museum (University of Oxford)
Oxford University
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Mount Holyoke College
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