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Material Vernaculars : Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds - Jason Baird Jackson

Material Vernaculars

Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds

By: Jason Baird Jackson (Editor)

Hardcover | 1 September 2016

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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.

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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 *

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