where to start: material culture classics

material culture classics

a working bibliography
a r t i f a c t
American Material Culture
www.otal.umd.edu/amst/artifact
january, 2000


in addition to various collections of essays, the following books and articles offer good starting points for exploring the material culture field.
Ames, Kenneth L. Beyond Necessity: Art in the Folk Tradition. Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum; [New York]: distributed by W. W. Norton, 1977.

Glassie, Henry. Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1975.

Glassie, Henry. Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1969.

prepared by susan garfinkel, jan. 2000

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