| Description |
xiv, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
American material culture and folklife
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American material culture and folklife.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Doctrines and guides: Natural history of folklore (1891) / Otis T. Mason -- Notes on folklore collecting (1890, 1893) / Fletcher S. Bassett, Philadelphia Chapter of the American Folklore Scoiety -- pt. 2. Groups and their customs: Folklore of the Pennsylvania Germans (1888) / W.J. Hoffman -- Folk custom and medicine of Chinese Americans (1887, 1890) / Stewart Culin -- "A retarded frontier": Appalachian material culture and folklife (1898) / George E. Vincent -- Folklife of American children (1893, 1896) / Fanny D. Bergen -- "Manual concepts": observations among the Zun̄i Indians (1892) / Frank Hamilton Cushing -- pt. 3. Types of objects and rites: Primitive American art and ornament (1900) / Stewart Culin -- Folk decoration of Southern Black graves (1891, 1892) / H. Carrington Bolton, Ernest Ingersoll -- Primitive inventions (1903) / George Wharton James -- Folk foods of the Rio Grande Valley and of Northern Mexico (1895) / John G. Bourke -- pt. 4. Interpretations from museums and collections: Traps of the "Amerinds": classification and study of folk technology from the vantage of the museum (1900) / Otis T. Mason -- Sacred objects of the Navajo rites (1893) / Washington Matthews -- "Object lessons": a folk museum and exhibit of games in the Columbian World's Exposition (1890, 1893) / Stewart Culin -- "Tools of the nation maker": toward a historical interpretation of American folklife (1897, 1907) / Henry C. Mercer. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918.
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United States. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
1865-1918 |
| Subject |
Material culture -- United States.
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Material culture. |
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Folklore -- United States.
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Folklore. |
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Ethnology -- United States.
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Ethnology. |
| Indexed Term |
American folklore, 1890-1910 |
| Added Author |
Bronner, Simon J.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Folklife studies from the gilded age. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1987 (OCoLC)568194097 |
| ISBN |
0835718379 alkaline paper |
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9780835718370 alkaline paper |
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