Material Histories Of Time

Author : Gianenrico Bernasconi,Susanne Thürigen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110625035

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Material Histories of Time by Gianenrico Bernasconi,Susanne Thürigen Pdf

The historiography of timekeeping is traditionally characterized by a dichotomy between research that investigates the evolution of technical devices on the one hand, and research that is concerned with the examination of the cultures and uses of time on the other hand. Material Histories of Time opens a dialogue between these two approaches by taking monumental clocks, table clocks, portable watches, carriage clocks, and other forms of timekeeping as the starting point of a joint reflection of specialists of the history of horology together with scholars studying the social and cultural history of time. The contributions range from the apparition of the first timekeeping mechanical systems in the Middle Ages to the first evidence of industrialization in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Author : Ivan Gaskell,Sarah Anne Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199341764

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The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture by Ivan Gaskell,Sarah Anne Carter Pdf

"The past has left a huge variety of traces in material form. If historians could figure out how to make use of them to create accounts of the past, a far greater range of histories would be available than if historians were to rely on written sources alone. People who do not appear in writings could come into focus; as could the concerns of people that have escaped writing but whose material things belie their desires and actions. This book explores various ways in which aspects of the past of peoples in many times and places otherwise inaccessible can come alive to the material culture historian. It is divided into five thematic sections that address history, material culture, and-respectively-cognition, technology, symbolism, social distinction, and memory. It does so by means of six individually authored case studies in each section that range from pins to pearls, Paleolithic to Punk"--

Author : Anne Gerritsen,Giorgio Riello
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350105249

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Writing Material Culture History by Anne Gerritsen,Giorgio Riello Pdf

Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture. Looking at archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The book addresses the role of museums, the impact of the digital age and the representations of objects in public history, bringing together students and specialists from around the world. This new edition includes: A new substantive introduction from the editors, providing a useful roadmap for students and specialists. A more balanced and easy-to-use structure, including methodological chapters and 'object in focus' chapters consisting of case studies for classroom discussion. New chapters showing greater engagement with 20th-century material culture, non-European artefacts and the definitions and limits of material culture as a discipline. Offers global coverage and discussion of both the early modern and modern periods. Writing Material Culture History 2e is an essential tool for students seeking to understand the potential of objects to re-cast established historical narratives in new and exciting ways.

Author : Jens Soentgen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009442749

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Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories by Jens Soentgen Pdf

This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanitie's perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories. It is shown that the common notions of rubber history, which assume that rubber only became a useful material through a miraculous operation called vulcanization, that is attributed to the US-American Charles Goodyear, are false. In contrast, it is shown that rubber and many important rubber products are inventions of Indigenous peoples of South America, made durable by a process that can be called organic vulcanization. It is with that invention, that the story of rubber starts. Without it, rubber would not exist, neither in the Americas nor elsewhere. Finally, it is shown that Indigenous rubber products also offer some ecological advantages over industrially manufactured ones.

Author : Katherine Ellison,Susan Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351973076

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A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers by Katherine Ellison,Susan Kim Pdf

The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music, the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and deciphering from new materialist, media studies, cognitive studies, disability studies, and other theoretical perspectives. Essays analyze the material forms of ciphering as windows into the cultures of orality, manuscript, print, and publishing, revealing that early modern ciphering, and the complex history that preceded it in the medieval period, not only influenced political and military history but also played a central role in the emergence of the capitalist media state in the West, in religious reformation, and in the scientific revolution. Ciphered communication, whether in etched stone and bone, in musical notae, runic symbols, polyalphabetic substitution, algebraic equations, graphic typographies, or literary metaphors, took place in contested social spaces and offered a means of expression during times of political, economic, and personal upheaval. Ciphering shaped the early history of linguistics as a discipline, and it bridged theological and scientific rhetoric before and during the Reformation. Ciphering was an occult art, a mathematic language, and an aesthetic that influenced music, sculpture, painting, drama, poetry, and the early novel. This collection addresses gaps in cryptographic history, but more significantly, through cultural analyses of the rhetorical situations of ciphering and actual solved and unsolved medieval and early modern ciphers, it traces the influences of cryptographic writing and reading on literacy broadly defined as well as the cultures that generate, resist, and require that literacy. This volume offers a significant contribution to the history of the book, highlighting the broader cultural significance of textual materialities.

Author : John L. McCarty,Huey D. Carden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Collisions (Astrophysics)
ISBN : UIUC:30112106593285

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Impact Characteristics of Various Materials Obtained by an Acceleration-time-history Technique Applicable to Evaluating Remote Targets by John L. McCarty,Huey D. Carden Pdf

Author : Robb Watt,Barbara Riley
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781772823929

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Material history bulletin no. 2 / Bulletin d'histoire de la culture matérielle no 2 by Robb Watt,Barbara Riley Pdf

This volume comprises a selection of papers and reviews concerning material culture. / Ce volume comporte un choix d’articles et de comptes rendus relatifs à la culture matérielle.

Author : Ivan Gaskell,Sarah Anne Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780197500132

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The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture by Ivan Gaskell,Sarah Anne Carter Pdf

Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen, made, and used. This book examines how material culture can enhance historians' understanding of the past, both worldwide and across time. The successful use of material culture in history depends on treating material things of many kinds not as illustrations, but as primary evidence. Each kind of material thing-and there are many-requires the application of interpretive skills appropriate to it. These skills overlap with those acquired by scholars in disciplines that may abut history but are often relatively unfamiliar to historians, including anthropology, archaeology, and art history. Creative historians can adapt and apply the same skills they honed while studying more traditional text-based documents even as they borrow methods from these fields. They can think through familiar historical problems in new ways. They can also deploy material culture to discover the pasts of constituencies who have left few or no traces in written records. The authors of this volume contribute case studies arranged thematically in six sections that respectively address the relationship of history and material culture to cognition, technology, the symbolic, social distinction, and memory. They range across time and space, from Paleolithic to Punk.

Author : Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887555381

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A Knock on the Door by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Pdf

“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Between 2008 and 2015, the TRC provided opportunities for individuals, families, and communities to share their experiences of residential schools and released several reports based on 7000 survivor statements and five million documents from government, churches, and schools, as well as a solid grounding in secondary sources. A Knock on the Door, published in collaboration with the National Research Centre for Truth & Reconciliation, gathers material from the several reports the TRC has produced to present the essential history and legacy of residential schools in a concise and accessible package that includes new materials to help inform and contextualize the journey to reconciliation that Canadians are now embarked upon. Survivor and former National Chief of the Assembly First Nations, Phil Fontaine, provides a Foreword, and an Afterword introduces the holdings and opportunities of the National Centre for Truth & Reconciliation, home to the archive of recordings, and documents collected by the TRC. As Aimée Craft writes in the Afterword, knowing the historical backdrop of residential schooling and its legacy is essential to the work of reconciliation. In the past, agents of the Canadian state knocked on the doors of Indigenous families to take the children to school. Now, the Survivors have shared their truths and knocked back. It is time for Canadians to open the door to mutual understanding, respect, and reconciliation.

Author : Stephen Lubar,David W. Kingery
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588343468

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History from Things by Stephen Lubar,David W. Kingery Pdf

History from Things explores the many ways objects—defined broadly to range from Chippendale tables and Italian Renaissance pottery to seventeenth-century parks and a New England cemetery—can reconstruct and help reinterpret the past. Eighteen essays describe how to “read” artifacts, how to “listen to” landscapes and locations, and how to apply methods and theories to historical inquiry that have previously belonged solely to archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and conservation scientists. Spanning vast time periods, geographical locations, and academic disciplines, History from Things leaps the boundaries between fields that use material evidence to understand the past. The book expands and redirects the study of material culture—an emerging field now building a common base of theory and a shared intellectual agenda.

Author : Dan Hicks,Mary C. Beaudry
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199218714

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The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies by Dan Hicks,Mary C. Beaudry Pdf

Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook makes accessible a full range of theoretical and applied approaches to the study of material culture, and the place of materiality in social theory, presenting current thinking about material culture from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, geography, and science and technology studies.

Author : Maia Kotrosits
Publisher : Class 200: New Studies in Religion
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Church history
ISBN : 9780226707587

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The Lives of Objects by Maia Kotrosits Pdf

"Judaism and Christianity as condensed illustrations of how people across time struggle with the materiality of life and death. Speaking across many fields, including classics, history, anthropology, literary, gender, and queer studies, the book journeys through the ancient Mediterranean world by way of the myriad physical artifacts that punctuate the transnational history of early Christianity. By bringing a psychoanalytically inflected approach to bear upon her materialist studies of religious history, Kotrosits makes a contribution not only to our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, but also our sense of how different disciplines construe historical knowledge, and how we as people and thinkers understand our own relation to our material and affective past"--

Author : Peter N. Miller
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472118915

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Cultural Histories of the Material World by Peter N. Miller Pdf

All across the humanities fields there is a new interest in materials and materiality. This is the first book to capture and study the “material turn” in the humanities from all its varied perspectives. Cultural Histories of the Material World brings together top scholars from all these different fields—from Art History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, Folklore, History, History of Science, Literature, Philosophy—to offer their vision of what cultural history of the material world looks like and attempt to show how attention to materiality can contribute to a more precise historical understanding of specific times, places, ways, and means. The result is a spectacular kaleidoscope of future possibilities and new perspectives.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045339590

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Collecting Documentary Material Significant to U.S. History by United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Archives
ISBN : MINN:31951D02135056Y

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Collecting Documentary Material Significant to U.S. History by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations Pdf

Considers (88) H.R. 6237.