TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bronner,Simon J.
TI  - Grasping things: folk material culture and mass society in America 
SN  - 0813115728
AV  - E161 .B7666 1986
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Lexington, KY
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Material culture
KW  - United States
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Food habits
KW  - Indiana
KW  - Dwellings
KW  - Folk art
KW  - Mass society
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - BIBINDX
N2  - America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects. In Pennsylvania, the "back to the city" housing movement causes a conflict of cultures. In Indiana, an old tradition of butchering turtles for church picnics evokes both pride and loathing among residents. In New York, folk-art exhibits raise choruses of adoration and protest. These are a few of the examples Simon Bronner uses to illustrate the ways Americans physically and mentally grasp things. Bronner moves beyond the usual discussions of form and variety in America's folk material culture to explain historical influences on, and the social consequences of, channeling folk culture into a mass society
ER  -