American Artifacts : Essays in Material Culture.
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| Language: | English |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Truth of Material Culture: History or Fiction?
- Seduced by an Old Flame: Paradox and Illusion in a Late- Twentieth-Century Lucite Lighter
- In Vino Vanitas? Death and the Cellarette in Empire New York
- Reaching Out to Touch Someone? Reflections on a 1923 Candlestick Telephone
- Sewing and Sowing: Cultural Continuity in an Amish Quilt
- Unwrapping the bwat sekre: The Secrets of a Haitian Money Box
- The Many Figures of Eve: Styles of Womanhood Embodied in a Late-Nineteenth-Century Corset
- A Garden in the Machine: Reading a Mid-Nineteenth-Century, Two-Cylinder Parlor Stove as Cultural Text
- Lucubrations on a Lava Lamp: Technocracy, Counterculture, and Containment in the American Sixties
- Industry, Nature, and Identity in an Iron Footbridge
- An Heirloom: Interpreting a Gilded Age Tortoiseshell Locket
- The Foley Food Mill
- The Light of the Home: Dialectics of Gender in an Argand Lamp
- Contributor Biographies
