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Mary C. Beaudry mines archaeological findings of sewing and needlework to discover what these small traces of female experience reveal about the societies and cultures in which they were used. Beaudry's geographical and chronological scope is broad: she examines sites in the United States and Great Britain, as well as Australia and Canada, and she ranges from the Middle Ages through the Industrial Revolution.The author describes the social and cultural significance of "findings": pins, needles, thimbles, scissors, and other sewing accessories and tools. Through the fascinating stories that grow out of these findings, Beaudry shows the extent to which such "small things" were deeply entrenched in the construction of gender, personal identity, and social class.

Pins and needles --- Sewing --- Needlework --- Decorative arts --- Textile crafts --- Dressmaking --- Embroidery --- Fancy work --- Home economics --- Needles --- Jewelry --- History. --- Equipment and supplies --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- Archeology

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'The Oxford handbook of material culture studies introduces and reviews current thinking in the interdisciplinary field of material culture studies. Drawing together approaches from archaeology, anthropology, geography, and science and technology studies, through twenty-eight specially commissioned essays by leading international researchers, the volume explores contemporary issues and debates in a series of themed sections - Disciplinary perspectives, material practices, object and humans, landscapes and the built environment, and studying particular things. Ranging from Coca-Cola, chimpanzees, artworks, and ceramics, to museums, cities, human bodies, and magical objects, the handbook is an essential resource for anyone with an interest in materiality and the place of material things in human life, both past and present. A comprehensive bibliography enhances its usefulness both as a research tool and as a classroom text.' --

archaeology --- cultuurwetenschap --- archeologie --- Archeology --- Material culture --- Archaeology --- Culture matérielle --- Archéologie --- Handbooks, manuals, etc --- Methodology --- Guides, manuels, etc --- Méthodologie --- Material culture. --- Research --- Methodology. --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:316.7C200 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Sociologie van de cultuuruitingen: algemeen --- Culture matérielle --- Archéologie --- Méthodologie --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Research&delete& --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- material culture [discipline] --- Anthropology --- Materials --- Social archaeology --- Primitive societies --- Human beings --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Social aspects --- Analysis --- Social sciences --- Recherche

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The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology provides an overview of the international field of historical archaeology (c. AD 1500 to the present) through seventeen specially-commissioned essays from leading researchers in the field. The volume explores key themes in historical archaeology including documentary archaeology, the writing of historical archaeology, colonialism, capitalism, industrial archaeology, maritime archaeology, cultural resource management and urban archaeology. Three special sections explore the distinctive contributions of material culture studies, landscape archaeology and the archaeology of buildings and the household. Drawing on case studies from North America, Europe, Australasia, Africa and around the world, the volume captures the breadth and diversity of contemporary historical archaeology, considers archaeology's relationship with history, cultural anthropology and other periods of archaeological study, and provides clear introductions to alternative conceptions of the field. This book is essential reading for anyone studying or researching the material remains of the recent past.

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This collection of essays in Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement draws inspiration from current archaeological interest in the movement of individuals, things, and ideas in the recent past. Movement is fundamentally concerned with the relationship(s) among time, object, person, and space. The volume argues that understanding movement in the past requires a shift away from traditional, fieldwork-based archaeological ontologies towards fluid, trajectory-based studies. Archaeology, by its very nature, locates objects frozen in space (literally in their three-dimensional matrices) at sites that are often stripped of people. An archaeology of movement must break away from this stasis and cut new pathways that trace the boundary-crossing contextuality inherent in object/person mobility.                 Essays in this volume build on these new approaches, confronting issues of movement from a variety of perspectives. They are divided into four sections, based on how the act of moving is framed. The groups into which these chapters are placed are not meant to be unyielding or definitive. The first section, "Objects in Motion," includes case studies that follow the paths of material culture and its interactions with groups of people. The second section of this volume, "People in Motion," features chapters that explore the shifting material traces of human mobility. Chapters in the third section of this book, "Movement through Spaces," illustrate the effects that particular spaces have on the people and objects who pass through them. Finally, there is an afterward that cohesively addresses the issue of studying movement in the recent past. At the heart of Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement is a concern with the hybridity of people and things, affordances of objects and spaces, contemporary heritage issues, and the effects of movement on archaeological subjects in the recent and contemporary past.

Social sciences (general) --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Archeology --- sociale wetenschappen --- archeologie --- Archaeology and history. --- Human beings --- Migration, Internal. --- Social archaeology. --- Archéologie et histoire --- Homme --- Migration intérieure --- Archéologie sociale --- Migrations. --- Migrations --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVHUMAI SPRINGER-B

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This volume develops the concept of intimate economies by showing how contemporary historical archaeologists apply the perspective to their research. The chapters in this volume address intimate economies across multiple historical contexts, and through various case studies provide the reader with a rich, evocative exploration of a concept of topical importance to current concerns and issues.

Informal sector (Economics) --- Capitalism --- Organized crime --- Business enterprises --- History. --- Social aspects --- Corrupt practices