Writing material culture history / edited by Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gerritsen, Anne, editor.

Riello, Giorgio, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Writing history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--History.

Material culture.

Material culture--Historiography.

Archaeology--Methodology.

Archaeology.

Art--History--Methodology.

Art.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Anthropology.

Historiography--Methodology.

Historiography.

Art--Methodology.

History.

Methodology.

Genre:

Informational works.

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 346 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.

Summary:

"This new edition of Writing Material Culture History examines the methodologies currently used in the historical study of material culture. Touching on archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides history students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The role of museums, the impact of the digital age and the representations of objects in public history are just some of the issues addressed in a book that brings together distinguished scholars from around the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Disciplines of Material Culture

1. Material culture and the history of art(efacts) / Viccy Colttnan

2. Written texts and the performance of materiality / Catherine Richardson

3. Anthropology, archaeology, history and the material culture of Lycra® / Kaori O'Connor

Object in focus 2 Material culture, archaeology and defining modernity: Case studies in ceramic research / David Gaimster

Object in focus 3 Father Amiot's cup: A Qing imperial porcelain sent to the court of Louis XV / Kee II Choi Jr.

Object in focus 4 Broken objects: Using archaeological ceramics in the study of material culture / Suzanne Findlen Hood

Object in focus 5 Writing our Maritime Pasts: The Belitung Shipwreck Controversy / Natali Pearson

Object in focus 6 Identity, heritage and memorialization: The Toraja Tongkonan of Indonesia / Kathleen M. Adams

Object in focus 7 History by design: The UK Board of Trade Design Register / Dinah Eastop

pt. II The Methods of Material Culture

4. Spaces of global interactions: The material landscapes of global history / Giorgio Riello

5. Material culture and materialism: The French Revolution in wallpaper / Ulrich Lehmann

6. How things shape us: Material culture and identity in the industrial age / Manuel Charpy

Object in focus 8 Invisible beds: Health and the material culture of sleep / Sandra Cavallo

Object in focus 9 Material culture and sound: A sixteenth-century handbell / Flora Dennis

Object in focus 10 Interwoven knowledge: Understanding and conserving three Islamic carpets / Raquel Santos

Object in focus 11 Lustrous things: Luminosity and reflection before the light bulb / Ann Smart Martin

Object in focus 12 Cosmopolitan relationships in the crossroads of the Pacific Ocean / Christina Hellmich

Object in focus 13 Digital microscopy and early modern embroidery / Stefan Hanfi

Object in focus 14 Objects of emotion: The London Foundling Hospital Tokens, 1741-60 / John Styles

Object in focus 15 Time, wear and maintenance: The afterlife of things / Victoria Kelley

pt. III The Preservation and Interpretation of Material Culture

7. The return of the Wunderkammer: Material culture in the museum / Ethan W. Lasser

8. Handle with care: The future of curatorial expertise / Glenn Adamson

9. As seen on the screen: Material culture, historical accuracy and the costume drama / Hannah Greig

Object in focus 16 Europe 1600-1800 in a thousand objects / Lesley Ellis Miller

Object in focus 17 Reading and writing the restoration history of an old French Bureau / Carolyn Sargentson

Object in focus 18 Objects of empire: Museums, material culture and histories of empire / John McAleer

Object in focus 19 The lost heritage of China: Dismantling Beijing, digitizing / Beijing Di Luo

Object in focus 20 `Black Gold': Industrial heritage of the nineteenth-century Ruhr area / Christian Kleinschmidt

Object in focus 21 Indigeneity and race and the politics of museum collections / Beverly Lemire

Object in focus 22 Acts of creation: Debating Indigenous American repatriation from / Britain Jack Davy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Writing material culture history

ISBN:

9781350105218

135010521X

9781350105225

1350105228

OCLC:

1178899267

Publisher Number:

99989266804