Material Vernaculars - Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Indiana University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Material Vernaculars
Release date:	October 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Jason Baird Jackson
Contributors:	Gabrielle Anna Berlinger • Danille Christensen • Michael P. Jordan • Jon Kay • Jim Cooley • Daniel C. Swan
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages:	210
ISBN-13:	978-0-253-02293-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Controversial knowledge > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Decorative arts & crafts > Folk art Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-253-02293-2
Barcode:	9780253022936

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