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"The past has left a huge variety of traces in material form. If historians could figure out how to make use of them to create accounts of the past, a far greater range of histories would be available than if historians were to rely on written sources alone. People who do not appear in writings could come into focus; as could the concerns of people that have escaped writing but whose material things belie their desires and actions. This book explores various ways in which aspects of the past of peoples in many times and places otherwise inaccessible can come alive to the material culture historian. It is divided into five thematic sections that address history, material culture, and-respectively-cognition, technology, symbolism, social distinction, and memory. It does so by means of six individually authored case studies in each section that range from pins to pearls, Paleolithic to Punk"--
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- Author : Ivan Gaskell
- Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
- Genre : Art
- Total Pages : 679 pages
- ISBN : 0199341761
- Release Date : 05 May 2020
- PDF File Size : 21,9 Mb
- Language : English
- Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews
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