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History from Things: Essays on Material Culture - Couverture souple

W. David Kingery

 
9781560986133: History from Things: Essays on Material Culture
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1560986131 ISBN 13 : 9781560986133
Editeur : Smithsonian, 1995

Synopsis

   History from Things explores the many ways objects—defined broadly to range from Chippendale tables and Italian Renaissance pottery to seventeenth-century parks and a New England cemetery—can reconstruct and help reinterpret the past. Eighteen essays describe how to “read” artifacts, how to “listen to” landscapes and locations, and how to apply methods and theories to historical inquiry that have previously belonged solely to archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and conservation scientists.

   Spanning vast time periods, geographical locations, and academic disciplines, History from Things leaps the boundaries between fields that use material evidence to understand the past. The book expands and redirects the study of material culture—an emerging field now building a common base of theory and a shared intellectual agenda.

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À propos de l'auteur

Steven Lubar is curator of engineering and industry at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

W. David Kingery is Regents Professor of Anthropology and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona.

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Éditeur
Smithsonian
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1560986131
ISBN 13 
9781560986133
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Éditeur
Steven Lubar
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Personne responsable
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