The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture

Introduction: Why History and Material Culture? by Ivan Gaskell and Sarah Anne Carter Part 1 History, Material Culture, and Cognition Chapter 1: Words or Things in American History? by Steven Conn Chapter 2: Artifacts and their Functions, by A.W. Eaton Chapter 3: Mastery, Artifice, and the Natural Order: A Jewel from the Early Modern Pearl Industry, by Mónica Domínguez Torres Chapter 4: Food and Cognition: Henry Norwood's A Voyage to Virginia, by Bernard L. Herman Chapter 5: On Pins and Needles: Straight Pins, Safety Pins, and Spectacularity, by Amber Jamilla Musser Chapter 6: Mind, Time, and Material Engagement, by Lambros Malafouris and Chris Gosden Part 2 History, Material Culture, and Technology Chapter 7: Material Time, by John Robb Chapter 8: Remaking the Kitchen, 1800-1850, by J. Ritchie Garrison Chapter 9: Boston Electric: Science by "Mail Order" and Bricolage at Colonial Harvard, by Sara J. Schechner Chapter 10: Making Knowledge Claims in the Eighteenth-Century British Museum, by Ivan Gaskell Chapter 11: The Ever-Changing Technology and Significance of Silk on the Silk Road, by Zhao Feng Chapter 12: Science, Play, and the Material Culture of Twentieth-Century American Boyhood, by Rebecca Onion Part 3 History, Material Culture, and the Symbolic Chapter 13: The Sensory Web of Vision: Enchantment and Agency in Religious Material Culture, by David Morgan Chapter 14: Sensiotics, or the Study of the Senses in Material Culture and History in Africa and Beyond, by Henry John Drewal Chapter 15: The Numinous Body and the Symbolism of Human Remains, by Christopher Allison Chapter 16: Symbolic Things and Social Performance: Christmas Nativity Scenes in Late Nineteenth-Century Santiago de Chile, by Olaya Sanfuentes Chapter 17: Heritage Religion and the Mormons, by Colleen McDannell Chapter 18: From Confiscation to Collection: The Objects of China's Cultural Revolution, by Denise Y. Ho Part 4 History, Material Culture, and Social Distinction Chapter 19: Persons and Things in Marseille and Lucca, 1300-1450, by Daniel Lord Smail Chapter 20: Cloth and the Rituals of Encounter in La Florida: Weaving and Unraveling the Code, by Laura Johnson Chapter 21: Street "Luxuries": Food Hawking in Early Modern Rome, by Melissa Calaresu Chapter 22: Ebony and Ivory: Pianos, People, Property, and Freedom on the Plantation, 1861-1870, by Dana E. Byrd Chapter 23: The Material Culture of Furniture Production in the British Colonies, by Edward S. Cooke, Jr. Chapter 24: Material Culture, Museums and the Creation of Multiple Meanings, by Neil G. W. Curtis Part 5 History, Material Culture, and Memory Chapter 25: Chronology and Time: Northern European Coastal Settlements and Societies, c. 500-1050, by Christopher Loveluck Chapter 26: Materialities in the Making of World Histories: South Asia and the South Pacific, by Sujit Sivasundaram Chapter 27: Mapping History in Clay and Skin: Strategies for Remembrance among Ga'anda of Northeastern Nigeria, by Marla C. Berns Chapter 28: Remember Me: Sensibility and the Sacred in Early Mormonism, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Chapter 29: Housing History: The Colonial Revival as Consumer Culture, by Thomas Denenberg Chapter 30: Collecting as Historical Practice and the Conundrum of the Unmoored Object, by Catherine Whalen Conclusion: The Meaning of Things, by Peter Burke