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cover of Digging into Popular Culture: Theories and Methodologies in Archeology, Anthropology, and Other Fields

Digging into Popular Culture

Theories and Methodologies in Archeology, Anthropology, and Other Fields

Pat Browne

University of Wisconsin Press, 1991

This volume presents archeological studies in conjunction with cultural anthropological studies as a means to enhance popular culture studies. Scholar Malcolm K. Shuman points out that the study of archeology must be careful to chart the total human content of an artifact, because archeology “is a profoundly human (and humanizing) endeavor that cannot be divorced from the matrix of human life.” The other ten essays cover aspects of archeology and cultural anthropology, and the authors are meticulous in studying their subject in context.

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cover of Making the American Home: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Material Culture, 1840–1940

Making the American Home

Middle-Class Women and Domestic Material Culture, 1840–1940

Marilyn F. Motz

University of Wisconsin Press, 1988

The transformation of a house into a home has been in our culture a traditional task of women. The articles examine this process as they reflected the role of American middle-class women as homemakers in the years 1840–1940.
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