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Understanding Everyday Life
Material Culture in America
Understanding Everyday Life
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Description
The first encyclopedia to look at the study of material culture (objects, images, spaces technology, production, and consumption), and what it reveals about historical and contemporary life in the United States.
Reaching back 400 years, Material Life in America: An Encyclopedia is the first reference showing what the study of material culture reveals about American society—revelations not accessible through traditional sources and methods.
In nearly 200 entries, the encyclopedia traces the history of artifacts, concepts and ideas, industries, peoples and cultures, cultural productions, historical forces, periods and styles, religious and secular rituals and traditions, and much more. Everyone from researchers and curators to students and general readers will find example after example of how the objects and environments created or altered by humans reveal as much about American life as diaries, documents, and texts.
Product details
Published | 07 Nov 2007 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 592 |
ISBN | 9781576076477 |
Imprint | ABC-CLIO |
Illustrations | 51 bw illus |
Dimensions | 254 x 178 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Highly recommended for college libraries and large public libraries.
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[T]his is a useful addition to undergraduate libraries, especially for the bibliographies.
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Material Culture in America forms a foundation for the basic reference source in the field . . . provides material appropriate for introductory classes in the field.
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