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Grasping Things: Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America

Simon J. Bronner

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In Pennsylvania, the "back to the city" 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. America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects. These are a few of the examples Simon Bronner uses to illustrate the ways Americans physically and mentally grasp things. Br

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Release: December 14, 2004

ISBN: 0813191424

ISBN 13: 9780813191423

Grasping Things: Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America

Simon J. Bronner

3.5/5 ( ratings)

In Pennsylvania, the "back to the city" 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. America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects. These are a few of the examples Simon Bronner uses to illustrate the ways Americans physically and mentally grasp things. Br

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Release: December 14, 2004

ISBN: 0813191424

ISBN 13: 9780813191423

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