The Oxford handbook of history and material culture

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Gaskell, Ivan 1955- (HerausgeberIn), Carter, Sarah Anne 1980- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Oxford Handbooks Ser.
Schlagworte:History Material culture Electronic books
Umfang:1 online resource (679 pages)
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Zusammenfassung: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. Deploying material culture to discover the pasts of constituencies who have left few traces in written record, the authors present familiar historical problems in new ways. This volume offers case studies arranged thematically in six sections that address the relationship of history and material culture to cognition, technology, the symbolic, social distinction, and memory.
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (679 pages)
ISBN:9780197500125
0197500129
9780199341764
0199341761