Title: American artifacts : essays in material culture /
Authors: Prown, Jules David.; Haltman, Kenneth, 1957-
Publisher: Michigan State University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Material culture United States.; Americana.; Popular culture United States; National characteristics, American.; Material culture Study and teaching United States.; United States Social life and customs.; United States Civilization.; United States Social life and customs Study and teaching.; United States Civilization Study and teaching.
Contents: The truth of material culture: history or fiction? / Jules David Prown -- Seduced by an old flame: paradox and illusion in a late-twentieth-century lucite lighter / Robyn Asleson -- In vino veritas? death and the cellarette in empire New York / Jeffrey Collins -- Reaching out to touch someone? reflections on a 1923 candlestick telephone / Kenneth Haltman -- Sewing and sowing: cultural continuity in an Amish quilt / Sara Laurel Holstein -- Unwrapping the bwat sekre: the secrets of a Haitian money box / Daisann McLane -- The many figures of Eve: styles of womanhood embodied in a late-nineteenth-century corset / Leslie Shannon Miller -- A garden in the machine: reading a mid-nineteenth-century, two-cylinder parlor stove as cultural text / Joel Pfister -- Lucubrations on a lava lamp: technocracy, counterculture, and containment in the American sixties / Jennifer L. Roberts -- Industry, nature, and identity in an iron footbridge / Carlo Rotella -- An heirloom: interpreting a gilded age tortoiseshell locket / Lucy Soutter -- The Foley food mill / Amy B. Werbel -- The light of the home: dialectics of gender in an Argand lamp / Weili Ye.