Material Culture in America
Subtitle: Understanding Everyday Life
Contributors: Shirley Wajda (Editor); Helen Sheumaker (Editor)
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: November 7, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 569
ISBN-13: 9781576076477
Subjects: Popular culture; Social history; Social Science; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Sociology; USA; Americana; General; Popular Culture - General; Social Science / Popular Culture; Encyclopedias; History; Material culture; United States
Description: "You can tell a lot about people by looking at their stuff - the things they make, process, and value. That is the idea that drives the field of material culture, in which scholars explore the meaning of objects of a given society. This book is the first encyclopedia to look at the study of material culture and what it reveals about life in the United States."--Jacket.