The Age of Homespun (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Laurel Thatcher
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The seventeenth century to the nineteenth century
- Setting: New England
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Colonies or colonization, Native Americans or American Indians, Anthropology or anthropologists, Homemakers, Weaving or weavers
- Locales: New England
Through the study of artifacts—what is generally called material culture study in academic circles—scholars can paint a richer, more balanced, and more detailed picture of human experience, both present and past. Objects of all sorts embody cultural values. They are the products of human effort and intention and tangible clues to people’s lives, beliefs, and behaviors. Because artifacts are products of human activity, they can be very useful to those interested in studying human life. In recent years, scholars in a variety of disciplines have discovered the power that things have...
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