Folklife studies from the gilded age: object, rite, and custom in Victorian America - Bronner, Simon J. (Object, rite, and custom in Victorian America, 1987)
Red cloth binding. Color illustrated dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references.
pt. 1Doctrines and guides:The natural history of folklore (1891) /Otis T. Mason --Notes on folklore collecting (1890, 1893) /Fletcher S. Bassett, Philadelphia Chapter of the American Folklore Scoiety --pt. 2Groups and their customs:Folklore of the Pennsylvania Germans (1888) /W.J. Hoffman --Folk custom and medicine of Chinese Americans (1887, 1890) /Stewart Culin --"A retarded frontier": Appalachian material culture and folklife (1898) /George E. Vincent --Folklife of American children (1893, 1896) /Fanny D. Bergen --"Manual concepts": observations among the Zun̄i Indians (1892) /Frank Hamilton Cushing --pt. 3Types of objects and rites:Primitive American art and ornament (1900) /Folk decoration of Southern Black graves (1891, 1892) /H. Carrington Bolton, Ernest Ingersoll --Primitive inventions (1903) /George Wharton James --Folk foods of the Rio Grande Valley and of Northern Mexico (1895) /John G. Bourke --pt. 4Interpretations from museums and collections:Traps of the "Amerinds": classification and study of folk technology from the vantage of the museum (1900) /Sacred objects of the Navajo rites (1893) /Washington Matthews --"Object lessons": a folk museum and exhibit of games in the Columbian World's Exposition (1890, 1893) /"Tools of the nation maker": toward a historical interpretation of American folklife (1897, 1907) /Henry C. Mercer.
Also issued online.
SPEC CULHN: ACQ: 35669. Gift of: Janice B. Longone. Post-it note on front flyleaf. In original dust jacket.
Keywords: Material culture. / fast / http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1011739; Manners and customs. / fast / http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007815; Folklore. / fast / http://id.worldcat.org/fast/930306; Ethnology. / fast / http://id.worldcat.org/fast/916106; Ethnology / United States. / http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045405; Folklore / United States. / http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050137; Material culture / United States. / http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010100958; United States. / fast / http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204155; United States / Social life and customs / 1865-1918 / http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140535