Grasping things : folk material culture and mass society in America / Simon J. Bronner.

By:

Bronner, Simon J [author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: İngilizce Publisher: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 1986Copyright date: ©1986Description: xv, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0813115728
9780813115726

Subject(s): LOC classification:

E161 .B7666 1986

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Book	Tıp Fakültesi Medikal Kütüphane Genel Koleksiyon / Main Collection	Tıp Fakültesi Medikal Kütüphane	Genel Koleksiyon	E161 .B7666 1986 TıpFaK (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Ödünç Verilemez-Kurumiçi kullanım / Not for loan-For inhouse use	Donated by Prof. Dr. Şükrü Cin

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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