Material vernaculars : objects, images, and their social worlds /

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Imprint:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Description:202 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Material vernaculars
Material vernaculars (Series)
Subject:Material culture -- Case studies.
Material culture -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
Material culture.
Material culture -- Social aspects.
Case studies.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10902399
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Other authors / contributors:Jackson, Jason Baird, 1969- editor.
William Hammond Mathers Museum (Bloomington, Ind.), sponsoring body.
ISBN:9780253022936
0253022932
9780253023483
0253023483
Notes:"In cooperation with the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University"
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:Online version: Material vernaculars Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016 9780253023612
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Summary:The role of objects and images in everyday life are illuminated incisively in Material Vernaculars , which combines historical, ethnographic, and object-based methods across a diverse range of material and visual cultural forms. The contributors to this volume offer revealing insights into the significance of such practices as scrapbooking, folk art produced by the elderly, the wedding coat in Osage ceremonial exchanges, temporary huts built during the Jewish festival of Sukkot, and Kiowa women's traditional roles in raiding and warfare. While emphasizing local vernacular culture, the contributors point to the ways that culture is put to social ends within larger social networks and within the stream of history. While attending to the material world, these case studies explicate the manner in which the tangible and intangible, the material and the meaningful, are constantly entwined and co-constituted.
Item Description:"In cooperation with the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University"
Physical Description:202 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780253022936
0253022932
9780253023483
0253023483