Overview
The role of objects and images in everyday life are illuminated incisively in Material Vernaculars, which combines historical, ethnographic, and object-based methods across a diverse range of material and visual cultural forms. The contributors to this volume offer revealing insights into the significance of such practices as scrapbooking, folk art produced by the elderly, the wedding coat in Osage ceremonial exchanges, temporary huts built during the Jewish festival of Sukkot, and Kiowa women's traditional roles in raiding and warfare. While emphasizing local vernacular culture, the contributors point to the ways that culture is put to social ends within larger social networks and within the stream of history. While attending to the material world, these case studies explicate the manner in which the tangible and intangible, the material and the meaningful, are constantly entwined and co-constituted.
Full Product Details
Author: Jason Baird Jackson ,
Gabrielle Anna Berlinger ,
Danille Christensen ,
Michael P. Jordan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.381kg
ISBN: 9780253023483
ISBN 10: 0253023483
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 03 October 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Material Vernaculars' key contribution to material culture studies is the commitment of each of its authors to foreground the visual and verbal performances and narratives necessary to connect people and objects, an approach largely absent in other studies of materiality. The volume emphasizes the multiple ways that community members use objects as vehicles for social action and expression, processes fully intertwined with social life. * Journal of Anthropological Research * Taken together, the essays-all of them richly illustrated with images in color-demonstrate the value of material culture studies to folkloristics. * Western Folklore *
Taken together, the essays-all of them richly illustrated with images in color-demonstrate the value of material culture studies to folkloristics. * Western Folklore * Material Vernaculars' key contribution to material culture studies is the commitment of each of its authors to foreground the visual and verbal performances and narratives necessary to connect people and objects, an approach largely absent in other studies of materiality. The volume emphasizes the multiple ways that community members use objects as vehicles for social action and expression, processes fully intertwined with social life. * Journal of Anthropological Research *
Author Information
Jason Baird Jackson is Director of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and Professor of Folklore Studies in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington.
