ISBN:
9780197500125
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (679 pages)
Series Statement:
Oxford Handbooks Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
907.2
Keywords:
History Research
;
Material culture
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen, made, and used. This book examines how material culture can enhance historians' understanding of the past, both worldwide and across time. Deploying material culture to discover the pasts of constituencies who have left few traces in written record, the authors present familiar historical problems in new ways. This volume offers case studies arranged thematically in six sections that address the relationship of history and material culture to cognition, technology, the symbolic, social distinction, and memory.
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