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The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture

Ivan Gaskell, Sarah Anne Carter (Herausgeber)

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680 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-934176-4 (ISBN)

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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-and there are many-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. Creative historians can adapt and apply the same skills they honed while studying more traditional text-based documents even as they borrow methods from these fields. They can think through familiar historical problems in new ways. They can also deploy material culture to discover the pasts of constituencies who have left few or no traces in written records. The authors of this volume contribute case studies arranged thematically in six sections that respectively address the relationship of history and material culture to cognition, technology, the symbolic, social distinction, and memory. They range across time and space, from Paleolithic to Punk.

Ivan Gaskell is Professor of Cultural History and Museum Studies at Bard Graduate Center in New York City. Sarah Anne Carter is Visiting Executive Director of the Center for Design and Material Culture and Visiting Assistant Professor of Design Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Introduction: Why History and Material Culture? by Ivan Gaskell and Sarah Anne Carter

Part 1
History, Material Culture, and Cognition
Chapter 1: Words or Things in American History? by Steven Conn
Chapter 2: Artifacts and their Functions, by A.W. Eaton
Chapter 3: Mastery, Artifice, and the Natural Order: A Jewel from the Early Modern Pearl Industry, by Mónica Domínguez Torres
Chapter 4: Food and Cognition: Henry Norwood's A Voyage to Virginia, by Bernard L. Herman
Chapter 5: On Pins and Needles: Straight Pins, Safety Pins, and Spectacularity, by Amber Jamilla Musser
Chapter 6: Mind, Time, and Material Engagement, by Lambros Malafouris and Chris Gosden

Part 2
History, Material Culture, and Technology
Chapter 7: Material Time, by John Robb
Chapter 8: Remaking the Kitchen, 1800-1850, by J. Ritchie Garrison
Chapter 9: Boston Electric: Science by "Mail Order" and Bricolage at Colonial Harvard, by Sara J. Schechner
Chapter 10: Making Knowledge Claims in the Eighteenth-Century British Museum, by Ivan Gaskell
Chapter 11: The Ever-Changing Technology and Significance of Silk on the Silk Road, by Zhao Feng
Chapter 12: Science, Play, and the Material Culture of Twentieth-Century American Boyhood, by Rebecca Onion

Part 3
History, Material Culture, and the Symbolic
Chapter 13: The Sensory Web of Vision: Enchantment and Agency in Religious Material Culture, by David Morgan
Chapter 14: Sensiotics, or the Study of the Senses in Material Culture and History in Africa and Beyond, by Henry John Drewal
Chapter 15: The Numinous Body and the Symbolism of Human Remains, by Christopher Allison
Chapter 16: Symbolic Things and Social Performance: Christmas Nativity Scenes in Late Nineteenth-Century Santiago de Chile, by Olaya Sanfuentes
Chapter 17: Heritage Religion and the Mormons, by Colleen McDannell
Chapter 18: From Confiscation to Collection: The Objects of China's Cultural Revolution, by Denise Y. Ho

Part 4
History, Material Culture, and Social Distinction
Chapter 19: Persons and Things in Marseille and Lucca, 1300-1450, by Daniel Lord Smail
Chapter 20: Cloth and the Rituals of Encounter in La Florida: Weaving and Unraveling the Code, by Laura Johnson
Chapter 21: Street "Luxuries": Food Hawking in Early Modern Rome, by Melissa Calaresu
Chapter 22: Ebony and Ivory: Pianos, People, Property, and Freedom on the Plantation, 1861-1870, by Dana E. Byrd
Chapter 23: The Material Culture of Furniture Production in the British Colonies, by Edward S. Cooke, Jr.
Chapter 24: Material Culture, Museums and the Creation of Multiple Meanings, by Neil G. W. Curtis

Part 5
History, Material Culture, and Memory
Chapter 25: Chronology and Time: Northern European Coastal Settlements and Societies, c. 500-1050, by Christopher Loveluck
Chapter 26: Materialities in the Making of World Histories: South Asia and the South Pacific, by Sujit Sivasundaram
Chapter 27: Mapping History in Clay and Skin: Strategies for Remembrance among Ga'anda of Northeastern Nigeria, by Marla C. Berns
Chapter 28: Remember Me: Sensibility and the Sacred in Early Mormonism, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Chapter 29: Housing History: The Colonial Revival as Consumer Culture, by Thomas Denenberg
Chapter 30: Collecting as Historical Practice and the Conundrum of the Unmoored Object, by Catherine Whalen

Conclusion: The Meaning of Things, by Peter Burke

Erscheinungsdatum	30.04.2020
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	249 x 180 mm
Gewicht	1338 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-934176-1 / 0199341761
ISBN-13	978-0-19-934176-4 / 9780199341764
Zustand	Neuware