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Introduction vlil Steven L u b a r and W. David Kingery The Truth of Material Culture: History or Fiction? 1 Jules David Prown
Why We Need Things 20 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Objects as Instruments, Objects as Signs Jacques Maquet Some Matters of Substance Robert Friedel
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The Ancestry of Chinese Bronze Vessels Jessica Rawson
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The Interpretation of Artifacts in the History of Technology 74 Robert B. Gordon Gardens and Society in Eighteenth-Century England Thomas Williamson Common Landscapes as Historie Documents Peirce Lewis
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The New England Cemetery as a Cultural Landscape 140 Ian W. Brown Artifacts as Expressions of Society and Culture: Subversive Genealogy and the Value of History 160 Mark P. Leone and B a r b a r a J. Little Why Take a Behavioral Approach to Folk Objects? 182 Michael Owen Jones Machlne Politics: The Polltical Construction of Technological Artifacts Steven L u b a r
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Technological Systems and Some Implications with Regard to Continuity and Change 215 W. David Kingery Repllcatlon Technlques in Eastem Zhou Bronze Casting Robert W. Bagley
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Technological Styles: Transforming a Natural Material into a Culturai Object 242 Rita P. Wright The Biography of an Object: The Intercultural Style Vessels of the Third Millennium B.C. 270 C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky The Sign of the Object John Dixon Hunt Contrlbutors