Book of Donmon Teith

The fourteen essays in this volume provide an important cross section of new research on the current state of American material culture scholarship. From Tupper

"You can tell a lot about people by looking at their stuff - the things they make, process, and value. That is the idea that drives the field of material cultur

The country's leading authority on use of artifactual evidence in historical research collects twenty-five classic essays and gives his overview of the field of

Explores the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years.

America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects. In Pennsylvania, the "back to the city" housing moveme