The Oxford handbook of history and material culture

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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. The successful use of material culture in history depends on treating material things of many kinds not as illustrations, but as primary evidence. Each kind of material thing-and there are many-requires the application of interpretive skills appropriate to it. These skills overlap with those acquired by scholars in disciplines that may abut history but are often relatively unfamiliar to historians, including anthropology, archaeology, and art history. Creative historians can adapt and apply the same skills they honed while studying more traditional text-based documents even as they borrow methods from these fields. They can think through familiar historical problems in new ways. They can also deploy material culture to discover the pasts of constituencies who have left few or no traces in written records. The authors of this volume contribute case studies arranged thematically in six sections that respectively address the relationship of history and material culture to cognition, technology, the symbolic, social distinction, and memory. They range across time and space, from Paleolithic to Punk

Angaben zum Objekt

• Weitere Titel: History and material culture
• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9780199341764
• Maße: 26 cm
• Umfang: xiv, 664 Seiten
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Illustrationen

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Geschichte
• Schlagwort: Geschichte ; Kunst ; Sachkultur ; Geschichte ; Sachkultur ; Kunst

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): New York, NY
• (wer): Oxford University Press
• (wann): [2020]
• Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen: Gaskell, Ivan ; Carter, Sarah Anne

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• Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://d-nb.info/1239593007/04
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• Letzte Aktualisierung: 11.03.2025, 12:21 MEZ