Learning from things : method and theory of material culture studies / edited by W. David Kingery.

Washington, D.C., London : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1996], ©1996.

x, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Introduction / David Kingery -- Material/culture: can the farmer and the cowman still be friends? / Jules D. Prown -- Learning from technological things / Steven Lubar -- Object lessons/object myths? what historians learn from things / Joseph J. Corn -- Object/ions: technology, culture, and gender / Ruth Oldenziel -- Formation processes of the historical and archaeological records / Michael Brian Schiffer -- Pathways to the present: in search of shirt-pocket radios with subminiature tubes / Michael Brian Schiffer -- Destruction of the archaeological heritage and the formation of museum collections: the case of Denmark / Kristian Kristiansen -- Passionate possession: the formation of private collections / Marjorie Akin.-- Formation processes of ethnographic collections: examples from the Great Basin of western North America / Catherine S. Fowler and Don D. Fowler -- Formation of anthropological archival records / Nancy J. Parezo -- Role for materials science / W. David Kingery -- Materials science and material culture / W. David Kingery -- Optical and electron microscopy in material culture studies / David Killick -- Dating, provenance, and usage in material culture studies / Michael S. Tite.

Includes bibliographical references.