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American artifacts : essays in material culture / edited by Jules David Prown and Kenneth Haltman.
| Other author | Prown, Jules David. |
| Other author | Haltman, Kenneth, 1957- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2000. |
| Description | xiii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The truth of material culture: history or fiction? / Jules David Prown -- Seduced by an old flame: paradox and illusion in a late-twentieth-century lucite lighter / Robyn Asleson -- In vino veritas? death and the cellarette in empire New York / Jeffrey Collins -- Reaching out to touch someone? reflections on a 1923 candlestick telephone / Kenneth Haltman -- Sewing and sowing: cultural continuity in an Amish quilt / Sara Laurel Holstein -- Unwrapping the bwat sekre: the secrets of a Haitian money box / Daisann McLane -- The many figures of Eve: styles of womanhood embodied in a late-nineteenth-century corset / Leslie Shannon Miller -- A garden in the machine: reading a mid-nineteenth-century, two-cylinder parlor stove as cultural text / Joel Pfister -- Lucubrations on a lava lamp: technocracy, counterculture, and containment in the American sixties / Jennifer L. Roberts -- Industry, nature, and identity in an iron footbridge / Carlo Rotella -- An heirloom: interpreting a gilded age tortoiseshell locket / Lucy Soutter -- The Foley food mill / Amy B. Werbel -- The light of the home: dialectics of gender in an Argand lamp / Weili Ye. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 00008703 |
| ISBN | 0870135244 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | E161 .A35 2000 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |