Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0253022932 ISBN 13 : 9780253022936

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2016

Synopsis

The role of objects and images in everyday life are illuminated incisively in Material Vernaculars, which combines historical, ethnographic, and object-based methods across a diverse range of material and visual cultural forms. The contributors to this volume offer revealing insights into the significance of such practices as scrapbooking, folk art produced by the elderly, the wedding coat in Osage ceremonial exchanges, temporary huts built during the Jewish festival of Sukkot, and Kiowa women's traditional roles in raiding and warfare. While emphasizing local vernacular culture, the contributors point to the ways that culture is put to social ends within larger social networks and within the stream of history. While attending to the material world, these case studies explicate the manner in which the tangible and intangible, the material and the meaningful, are constantly entwined and co-constituted.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jason Baird Jackson is Director of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and Professor of Folklore Studies in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253022932
• ISBN 13: 9780253022936
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 210
• Éditeur: Jackson Jason Baird
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible