Title: Material culture studies in America /
Authors: Schlereth, Thomas J.
Publisher: American Association for State and Local History,
Year: 1982
Subjects: Material culture United States.; Archaeology and history United States; Material culture Study and teaching United States.; Industries United States; United States Civilization.; United States Social life and customs.; United States Civilization Study and teaching.; United States Social life and customs Study and teaching.
Contents: Preface : on studying the things they left behind ; Material culture studies in America, 1876-1976 / Thomas J. Schlereth -- American studies : words or things? / John A. Kouwenhoven -- The challenge of the artifact / William B. Hesseltine -- Manuscripts and manufacts / Wilcomb E. Washburn -- The use of objects in historical research / John T. Schlebecker -- Culture, history, and artifact / Steven M. Beckow -- Folk art / Henry Glassie -- The connoisseurship of artifacts / Charles F. Montgomery -- The six requirements for design / David Pye -- Artifact study : a proposed model / E. McClung Fleming -- Axioms for reading the landscape : some guides to the American scene / Peirce F. Lewis -- Pop pedagogy : looking at the coke bottle / Craig Gilborn -- Death's head, cherub, urn and willow / James Deetz and Edwin S. Dethlefsen -- Meaning in artifacts : hall furnishings in Victorian America / Kenneth L. Ames -- The "industrial revolution" in the home : household technology and social change in the twentieth century / Ruth Schwartz Cowan --