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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.

Material culture. --- Historiography. --- Culture matérielle --- Historiographie --- Material culture --- Historiography --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Culture matérielle. --- material culture (discipline). --- Culture matérielle

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"Saviez-vous que le hamac, d'origine amérindienne, avait été mis au service de la conquête de l'espace ? Que le surf fut d'abord une pratique politique et religieuse ? Que le shampoing adopté par les Britanniques provient du sous-continent indien ? Que la boîte de conserve a initié le développement spectaculaire de Kuala Lumpur ? Que la passion du piano a accéléré l'extermination des éléphants des savanes africaines ? Que de petits coquillages des Maldives permettaient d'acheter des captifs destinés aux plantations outre-Atlantique ? A l'invitation de Pierre Singaravélou et Sylvain Venayre, près de quatre-vingt-dix historiennes et historiens ont accepté de relever le défi, savant et ludique, d'une histoire du monde par les objets. De la tong au sari, du gilet jaune à la bouteille en plastique, en passant par le sex-toy et la chicotte, ces objets tour à tour triviaux et extraordinaires éclairent nos pratiques les plus intimes tout en nous invitant à comprendre autrement la mondialisation et ses limites. Un voyage insolite et passionnant dans le grand magasin du monde."

Material culture --- Culture and globalization --- Culture matérielle --- Culture et mondialisation --- History --- Histoire --- Objets usuels --- Culture matérielle. --- Mondialisation. --- Histoire économique. --- Histoire moderne et contemporaine. --- History, Modern --- Implements, utensils, etc. --- Histoire. --- History. --- Culture matérielle. --- Histoire économique. --- Material culture - History --- Culture matérielle - Histoire

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Material Methods brings together resources for researchers investigating both the material, as well as the social world through material objects we design, buy, make, exchange and collect. It covers the whole research process, from theoretical underpinnings, selection of methods and their possible uses, as well as representing and analysing data. It introduces students and researchers to the wide range of cross-disciplinary methods which help us to approach and interpret material culture and materials. The book also provides students and researchers with the tools to critically reflect upon pre-existing methods to see their limitations as well as possibilities, and apply them to their own research practice.

Market research --- Material culture --- Materials --- Research --- #SBIB:303H12 --- Materials research --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Research&delete& --- Methodology --- Methoden en technieken: sociale wetenschappen --- Methodology. --- Culture matérielle --- Matériaux --- Recherche --- Méthodologie

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Introduction : emotions and materiality in theory and method / Ruth E. Toulson and Zahra Newby -- Dead people's clothes : materialising mourning and memory in Ancient Rome / Valerie M. Hope -- Remembering Roland Leighton : uniforms as the materials of memory in World War I / Emily Brayshaw -- Destroying objects, keeping memories / Eric Venbrux -- The Grottarossa doll and her mistress : hope and consolation in a Roman tomb / Zahra Newby -- Talking with a cold grey stone : the life and death of gravestones in contemporary Denmark / Anne Kjaesgaard -- The face of the deceased : portrait busts in Roman tombs / Helen I. Ackers -- Enduring grief : images of mourning from the ancient classical world to eighteenth-century Britain / Kate A. Beats -- The "worth" of grief and the "value" of bodies : managing the civilian corpse in Second World War Britain / Lucy Noakes -- Fragments of bone and chips of stone : materiality and mourning in a Chinese society / Ruth E. Toulson -- Sacred rituals of the security state : reclaiming bodies and making relics from Ground Zero / Charlotte Heath-Kelly -- Why materiality in mourning matters / Michael Brennan -- The death turn : interdisciplinarity, mourning and material culture / Douglas J. Davies.

Bereavement --- Bereavement --- Culture matérielle --- Deuil --- Deuil --- Interdisziplinäre Forschung. --- Material culture --- Material culture. --- Mourning customs --- Mourning customs. --- Sachkultur. --- Trauerarbeit. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social --- Coutumes

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La signification que les individus donnent aux choses repose nécessairement sur les transactions et les motivations humaines, et plus particulièrement sur la façon dont ces choses circulent et dont on en fait usage. Grâce aux essais de spécialistes en anthropologie sociale et d'historiens, ce livre construit un pont entre l'histoire sociale, l'anthropologie culturelle et l'économie et marque une étape majeure dans notre compréhension des fondements culturels de la vie économique et de la sociologie de la culture. Il trouvera un écho chez les anthropologues, les historiens des sociétés, les économistes, les archéologues et les historiens de l'art.

Implements, utensils, etc. --- Consumer goods --- Social values --- Instruments, ustensiles, etc. --- Biens de consommation --- Valeurs sociales --- Marketing. --- Social aspects. --- Commercialisation --- Aspect social --- Culture matérielle --- Industrie et commerce --- Sémiologie --- Sociologie de la culture --- Anthropologie --- Economie --- Consommation --- Biens de consommation - Aspect social --- Instruments, ustensiles, etc. - Industrie et commerce --- Commerce --- Economic anthropology