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The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Elusive Archives: Material Culture in Formation (Material Culture Perspectives)
by Oliver Scheiding • Wendy Bellion • Bernard L. Herman • Julian Yates • Sarah Wasserman • Alexander Lawrence Ames • Torsten Cress • Julie L. McGee • Cindy Ott • Laura E. Helton • Jennifer Van Horn • Kiersten Thamm • Alexandra Ward • Halina Adams • Rosalie Hooper • Spencer Wigmore • Catherine Morrissey • Michelle Everidge • Kaila T. Schedeen • Lu Ann Cunzo • Natalie Elizabeth Wright • J. Ritchie Garrison • Jesse Kraft • Michael J. Emmons • Jessica ConradThe essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acqui... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021