History from things : essays on material culture /
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Washington, D.C. :
Smithsonian Institution Press,
c1993.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cap. 1.The truth of material culture: history or fiction? ; cap. 2.Why we need things ; cap. 3.Objects as instruments, objects as signs ; cap. 4.Some matters of substance ; cap. 5.The ancestry of Chinese bronze vessels ; cap. 6.The interpretation of artifacts in the history of technology ; cap. 7.Gardens and society in eighteenth-century England ; cap. 8.Common landscapes as historic documents ; cap. 9.The New England cemetery as a cultural landscape ; cap. 10.Artifacts as expressions of society and culture: subversive genealogy and the value of history ; cap. 11.Why take a behavioral approach to folk objects? ; cap. 12.Machine politics: the political construction of technological artifacts ; cap. 13.Technological systems and some implications with regard to continuity and change ; cap. 14.Replication techniques in Eastern Zhou bronze casting ; cap. 15.Technological styles: transforming a natural material into a cultural object ; cap. 16.The biography of an object: the intercultural style vessels of the third millenium B.C. ; cap. 17.The sign of the object.