In this Book
- Grasping Things: Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The University Press of Kentucky
summary
America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects. In Pennsylvania, the "back to the city" housing movement causes a conflict of cultures. In Indiana, an old tradition of butchering turtles for church picnics evokes both pride and loathing among residents. In New York, folk-art exhibits raise choruses of adoration and protest. These are a few of the examples Simon Bronner uses to illustrate the ways Americans physically and mentally grasp things. Bronner moves beyond the usual discussions of form and variety in America's folk material culture to explain historical influences on, and the social consequences of, channeling folk culture into a mass society.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- 1. Grasping Things
- pp. 1-22
- 2. Entering Things
- pp. 23-86
- 3. Making Things
- pp. 87-159
- 4. Consuming Things
- pp. 160-210
- Photo Section
- pp. 248-255
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813148564
Related ISBN(s)
9780813108124, 9780813115726, 9780813131597, 9780813182742, 9780813191423
MARC Record
OCLC
567909374
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No