American Material Culture : The Shape of the Field

by Martin, Ann Smart; Garrison, J. Ritchie; Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum

• ISBN13: 9780912724355
• ISBN10: 0912724358
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Tennessee Pr

Table of Contents

Shaping the Field: The Multidisciplinary Perspectives of Material Culture	1	(20)
Ann Smart Martin, Historian, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
J. Ritchie Garrison, Associate Director, Museum Studies Program, Associate Professor of History, University of Delaware, Associate Professor, Office of Advanced Studies, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
American Difference Revisited: The Case of the American Axe	21	(16)
Gary Kulik, Deputy Director, Library and Academic Programs Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
The Bricoleur Revisited	37	(28)
Bernard L. Herman, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
Material Culture as Rhetoric: "Animal Artifacts" as a Case Study	65	(40)
Katherine C. Grier, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Utah
Getting Ready: Doll Play and Real Life in American Culture, 1900-1980	105	(30)
Dorothy K. Washburn, Department of Art History, Maryland Institute, College of Art
Material Culture as Text: Review and Reform of the Literacy Model for Interpretation	135	(34)
Pauline K. Eversmann
Rosemary T. Krill
Edwina Michael
Beth A. Twiss-Garrity
Tracey Rae Beck, Education, Public Programs, and Visitor Service Division, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Textualizing Technics: Owner's Manuals and the Reading of Objects	169	(26)
Joseph J. Corn, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Stanford University
The Social Meanings of Portrait Miniatures in Philadelphia, 1760-1820	195	(30)
Anne Verplanck, Marion and Dorothy Brewington Curator of Maritime Collections, Maryland Historical Society
Tupperware: Product as Social Relation	225	(26)
Alison J. Clarke, Senior Lecturer, School of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Brighton, England
Leather Stockings and Hunting Shirts	251	(26)
Linda R. Baumgarten, Curator of Textiles, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Inventing Comfort: The Piazza	277	(40)
John E. Crowley, Professor, Department of History, Dalhousie University
Archaeological Perspectives on Material Culture and Ethnicity	317	(42)
James Gregory Cusick, Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of North Florida
Material Culture and the Performance of Sociocultural Identity: Community, Ethnicity, and Agency in the Burial Practices at the First African Baptist Church Cemeteries, Philadelphia, 1810-41	359	(22)
John P. McCarthy, Vice President, Senior Archaeologist/Historian, IMA Consulting, Inc.
Evaluating Exhibitions: History Museums and Material Culture	381	(20)
Ellen Paul Denker, Museum Consultant, Wilmington, Delaware
Material Culture History: The Scholarship Nobody Knows	401
Cary Carson, Vice President for Research, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation