Writing Material
Culture History
EDITED BY ANNE GERRITSEN
AND GIORGIO RIELLOCONTENTS
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Contributors 3
Introduction: Writing Material Culture History 1
‘Anne Garton and Giorgio Ral
PART ONE The Disciplines of Material Culture 15
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‘Material Culture and the History of Art(efacts) 17
Vice Colm
Father Amiot’s Cup: A Qing Imperial Porcelain sent to the
Court of Louis XV 33
Keel Choir
‘Written Texts and the Performance of Materiality 43
Catherine Richardon
Material Culture, Archaeology and Defining Modernity:
Case Studies in Ceramic Research 59
David Gamer
Broken Objects: Using Archeological Ceramics in the
Study of Material Culture 67
Susanne Findon Hood
Anthropology, Archaeology, Mistory and the Material
Caleare of Lyera® 73
Kacri O*Conmor
Identity, Heritage and Mem
TTongkonan of Indonesia 93
Ketblon M. Adame
alization: The Torajae
8 Exchange and Value: The Mat
‘Chumash Basket 101
Dana Lebuchn
ial Culture of a
PART TWO The Histories of Material Culture 10s
9 Spaces of Global Interactions: The Material Landscapes of
Global History 11
Ave Gerritsen and Giorgi Rello
410 Cosmopolitan Relationships inthe Crossroads of the
Pacific Ocean 135,
Christina Hellnich
11 Invisible Beds: Health and the Material Culture of
Sleep 143
Sandra Cavallo
12 Material Culture and Sous
Handbell 151
Flom Dennis
13 Lustrous Things: Luminosity and Reflection before
the Light Bulb 157
‘An Smart Martin.
14 Objects of Emotion: The London Foundling Hospital
Tokens, 1741-60 165
Job Slee
15 Material Culture and Materialism The French Revolution
in Wallpaper 173
hich Lena
16 Time, Wear and Maintenance: The Afterlife of Things 191
Vitor Kelley
17 How Things Shape Us: Material Culture and Identity in
the Industrial Age 199
‘Manuel Charpy
Sisteenth-century