The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture (Oxford Handbooks) [Illustrated] 9780199341764, 0199341761

Table of contents :
Cover
The Oxford Handbook of HISTORY AND MATERIAL CULTURE
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why History and Material Culture?
Material Culture, Material Pluralism
Five Fields of History and Material Culture
Notes
Part I: HISTORY, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND COGNITION
Chapter 1: Words or Things in American History?
Material Culture and How to Categorize the Past
Material Culture, Historical Narrative, and the Problem of Scale
Twists and Turns: Whither Material Culture?
Material Culture, the Past, and Nostalgia
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 2: Artifacts and Their Functions*
What Is Artifact Function and Why Should We Care?
Two Theories of Artifact Function: Intentionalism and Conventionalism
An Etiological Account of Function
Conclusion: Some Hard Cases
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Mastery, Artifice, and the Natural Order: A Jewel from the Early Modern Pearl Industry
Natural Wonders: Pearls as Collectibles
The Art of Mastering Nature
Captured Treasures, Treasured Captives
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Food and Cognition: Henry Norwood’s A Voyage to Virginia
A Banquet in Transit
Dining with the Werowance
A Virginia Planter’s “Well Order’d” Table
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 5: On Pins and Needles: Straight Pins, Safety Pins, and Spectacularity
Introduction
A Tale of Two Exhibits
The Underpinnings of Spectacularity
Spectacular Gaps/Epistemological Folds
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Mind, Time, and Material Engagement
Material Engagement and the Extended Mind
Problems with the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis
Mind, Time, and Material Agency
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Part II: HISTORY, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND TECHNOLOGY
Chapter 7: Material Time*
Materiality and Temporality
The Materiality of Time
Temporal Strategies: Managing Time
Conclusions and Implications: Timing Is All
Notes
Chapter 8: Remaking the Kitchen, 1800–1850
George and Mary Read’s Kitchen
Samuel and Olive Stearns’ House
Joseph and Betsey Maybury’s House
Charity and George Stearns’ House
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 9: Boston Electric: Science by “Mail Order” and Bricolage at Colonial Harvard
Early Lessons in Cambridge: Playing with Exhalations
The Leyden Jar Comes to Town
Repurposed Glass Jars
Home Built versus “Mail Order”
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 10: Making Knowledge Claims in the Eighteenth-Century British Museum*
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 11: The Ever-Changing Technology and Significance of Silk on the Silk Road
The Ancient System during the Han Period in China (200 bce–200 ce)
Central Asia, or the Sogdian System (First–Seventh Centuries ce)
The New System of Tang Silk Production (Eighth–Twelfth Centuries)
The European System of Silk Production (Thirteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 12: Science, Play, and the Material Culture of Twentieth-Century American Boyhood
The Freedom of Interwar Boyhood Experimentation
The Dangers of Postwar Material Culture: Everybody’s a Child Here
Conclusion: Science, Gender, and Protection
Notes
Bibliography
Part III: HISTORY, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND THE SYMBOLIC
Chapter 13: The Sensory Webof Vision Enchantment and Agency in Religious Material Culture
Defining Enchantment
A Network Approach to Material Culture
Between Relic and Image: Materializing Vision
Veronica Since the Middle Ages
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 14: Sensiotics, or the Study of the Senses in Material Culture and History in Africa and Beyond
Seeing
Sensing
Sensiotics Elaborated
Sensiotics and a Yorùbá Sensorium
Conclusion—Sensiotics beyond Africa
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 15: The Numinous Body and the Symbolism of Human Remains
The Numinous
Religion and the Body in the Study of American Material Culture
An Engraved Portrait of Ann Wilkins
George Whitefield’s Rib
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 16: Symbolic Things and Social Performance: Christmas Nativity Scenes in Late Nineteenth-Century Santiago de Chile
Theoretical Framework
Description of the Objects
Votive Practices around the Nativity Scene
Viewing the Nativity Scene
The Relationship between the Crèche and Its Spectators
Celebration and Ritual as Sources of Social Cohesion
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 17: Heritage Religion and the Mormons
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 18: From Confiscation to Collection: The Objects of China’s Cultural Revolution
Material Culture, Class Categories, and China
The House Search and the Attack on the “Four Olds”
Old Society in New Society
Collecting after the Cultural Revolution
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part IV: HISTORY, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND SOCIAL DISTINCTION
Chapter 19: Persons and Things in Marseille and Lucca, 1300–1450
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 20: Cloth and the Rituals of Encounter in La Florida: Weaving and Unraveling the Code
Nettles and Velvet: The Language of Clothing Prior to Contact
Painted Deerskins and Linen: Florida Natives Meet the Spanish
Fleur de Lys and Spanish Wool: The French Encounters in La Florida
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 21: Street “Luxuries”: Food Hawking in Early Modern Rome*
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 22: Ebony and Ivory: Pianos, People, Property, and Freedom on the Plantation, 1861–1870*
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 23: The Material Culture of Furniture Production in the British Colonies
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 24: Material Culture, Museums, and the Creation of Multiple Meanings
The Biography of Museum Objects
Entwining Texts and Objects
Numinous Objects
The Culture of Museums
Museums as Sacred Places
Collecting and Exhibiting Scottish Identities
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part V: HISTORY, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND MEMORY
Chapter 25: Chronology and Time: Northern European Coastal Settlements and Societies, c. 500–1050
Material Culture, Memory, and Identity Construction in Coastal Zones, c. 450–600
Coastal Societies and Cycles of Maritime Orientation through Time around the Southern North Sea and Kattegat, c. 650–1000
Material Culture, Representation, and Memory in Port Towns, c. 900–1050
Concluding Remarks
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 26: Materialities in the Making of World Histories: South Asia and the South Pacific
Flexible Palm Leaves
Resonant Genealogies
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 27: Mapping History in Clay and Skin: Strategies for Remembrance among Ga’anda of Northeastern Nigeria
Spirit Vessels
Ga’anda Historical Narratives
Mapping Memory in Skin
Modeling Memory and History in Clay
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 28: Remember Me: Sensibility and the Sacred in Early Mormonism
Mormons, Memory, and the Tangible
Mormons, Sentimental Friendship, and Plurality
Mormons, Patriarchy, and the Sacred
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 29: Housing History: The Colonial Revival as Consumer Culture*
The Literary Industrial Complex
Consumed by the Past
A Landscape of the (Historical) Imagination
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 30: Collecting as Historical Practice and the Conundrum of the Unmoored Object
Figural and Textual Representation: Materializing Nathan Hale
The Hale Homestead: Space, Place, and Performance
Biography and Autobiography: Nathan Hale and Henry Solon Graves
Antiquarian or Dilettante? Autobiography, Posterity, and the Infidelities of Portraiture
Space, Place, and Performance (Again): Putting Nathan Hale on the National Map
Material Texts: Inscribing the Ideal Friendship of Hale and Wyllys
Final Words, Persistent Things
Conclusion: Future Antiquaries
Notes
Bibliography
Conclusion: The Meaning of Things*
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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