Collin:
On the academic side of things...
St. George, Robert Blair, ed. Material Life in America: 1600-1860. Boston:
Northeastern University Press, 1988.
Berger, Arthur Asa. Reading Matter: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on
Material Culture. London: Transaction Publishers, 1992.
Bronner, Simon J., ed. American Material Culture and Folklife: A Prologue
and Dialogue. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985.
Lubar, Steven and W. David Kingery. History from Things: Essays on Material
Culture. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1993.
Martin, Ann Smart and J. Ritchie Garrison, eds. American Material Culture:
The Shape of the Field. Winterthur, Delaware: Henry Francis du Pont
Winterthur Museum, 1997.
Mayo, Edith. American Material Culture: the Shape of Things Around us.
Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1984.
All of these sources are anthologies and include many differing ways to
look/read/interpret material culture. Prown, Henry Glassie, John Michael
Vlach, and Dell Upton show up a lot. I would probably have to say, though,
most of the objects covered in these books are mostly American and not
archaeological.
Just some ideas.
Rebecca Phipps
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Subject: Intepretation of Museum Objects
> Hello,
>
> I am working on paper re: the interpretation of objects in
> museums--specifically archaeological artifacts with limited provenience.
>
> I have read Susan Pearce's "Museums Objects and Collections" and have a
> working knowledge of Panofsky, Fleming, Prown, Elliott and Pearce's models
> for object study. I have also read Karp and Lavine's "Exhibiting
Cultures."
>
> Can anyone recommend additional models, or sources for object study/object
> interpretation? Can anyone recommend sources for the ethics concerned with
> museum object interpretation?
>
> Thank you
>
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