History from Things: Essays on Material Culture
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History from Things explores the many ways objects--defined broadly to range from Chippendale tables and Italian Renaissance pottery to seventeenth-century parks and a New England cemetery--can reconstruct and help reinterpret the past. Eighteen essays describe how to "read" artifacts, how to "listen to" landscapes and locations, and how to apply methods and theories to historical inquiry that have previously belonged solely to archaeologists, anthropologists,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1560986131
ISBN13:9781560986133
Release Date:September 1995
Publisher:Smithsonian Books
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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Art Arts, Music & Photography Museum Studies & Museology Social Science Social SciencesCustomer Reviews
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