Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism During Chicago's 1893 World's Fair - Couverture rigide

Graff, Rebecca S.

 
9780813066493: Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism During Chicago's 1893 World's Fair
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ISBN 10 : 0813066492 ISBN 13 : 9780813066493
Editeur : University Press of Florida, 2020

Synopsis

Through archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Disposing of Modernity explores the changing world of urban America at the turn of the twentieth century. Featuring excavations of trash deposited during the fair, Rebecca Graff's first-of-its-kind study reveals changing consumer patterns, notions of domesticity and progress, and anxieties about the modernization of society.

Graff examines artifacts, architecture, and written records from the 1893 fair's Ohio Building, which was used as a clubhouse for fairgoers in Jackson Park, and the Charnley-Persky House, an aesthetically modern city residence designed by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. Many of the items she uncovers were products that first debuted at world's fairs, and materials such as mineral water bottles, cheese containers, dentures, and dinnerware illustrate how fairs created markets for new goods and influenced consumer practices.

Graff discusses how the fair's ephemeral nature gave it transformative power in Chicago society, and she connects its accompanying "conspicuous disposal" habits to today's waste disposal regimes. Reflecting on the planning of the Obama Presidential Center at the site of the Chicago World's Fair, she draws attention to the ways the historical trends documented here continue in the present.

Published in cooperation with the Society for Historical Archaeology

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À propos de l?auteur

Rebecca S. Graff is associate professor of anthropology at Lake Forest College.

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Éditeur
University Press of Florida
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813066492
ISBN 13 
9780813066493
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0813081610 ISBN 13 :  9780813081618
Editeur : University Press of Florida, 2026
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