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A rich resource for making history through objects demonstrates the benefits of intrainstitutional collaboration and is dedicated to the people who care for and preserve tangible things. Making history through objects by laurel thatcher ulrich. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Phrase searching you can use double quotes to search for a series of words in a particular order. Request pdf on jul 3, 2017, dinah eastop and others published tangible things. Her books include comets, popular culture, and the birth of modern cosmology 1997, time and time again. Laurel thatcher ulrich, ivan gaskell, sara schechner, and. Making history through objects find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Rent tangible things making history through objects 1st edition 9780199382286 and save up to 80% on textbook rentals and 90% on used textbooks. Making history through objects 2015, with laurel thatcher ulrich, ivan gaskell, and sarah carter, and the interpretive catalog time of our lives. Tangible things making history through objects 1st edition. Making history through objects kindle edition by ulrich, laurel thatcher, gaskell, ivan, schechner, sara, carter, sarah anne, van gerbig, samantha. Schechner, and sarah anne carter and will not need an account to access the content. Wildcard searching if you want to search for multiple variations of a word, you can substitute a special symbol called a wildcard for one or more letters.

Tangible things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their. Instead, the authors waited until after the exhibition had closed so that they, as they put it, could take our observations of the many juxtapositions and interventions in the exhibition itself into account 20. This course will draw on some of the most fascinating items housed at harvard university, highlighting several to give you a sense of the power of learning through tangible things. Tangible things 2015 is the indirect product of teaching programmes at harvard that use artefacts from university collections as a key part of their pedagogy. Tangible things by laurel thatcher ulrich, 9780199382286, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Professor of cultural history and of museum studies ivan gaskell. Tangible things by laurel thatcher ulrich overdrive. Tangible things making history through objects laurel thatcher ulrich, ivan gaskell, sara schechner, sarah anne carter, and with photographs by samantha van gerbig. Rent tangible things making history through objects 1st edition 9780199382286 and save up to 80% on textbook rentals and 90% on used.

Tangible things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and extraordinary things like the transit of planets across the sky. It argues that almost any material thing, when examined closely, can be. In tangible things, you will discover how material objects have shaped academic disciplines and reinforced or challenged boundaries between people. The oxford handbook of history and material culture, coedited with ivan gaskell forthcoming, oxford university press 2017. Over four centuries, harvard university has amassed an astonishing array of tangible thingsbooks and manuscripts, art works, scientific specimens, ethnographic artifacts, and historical relics of all sorts. Current positions publications books tangible things. Publications the collection of historical scientific.

David p wheatland curator of the collection of historical scientific. Making history through objects history workshop journal. It argues that almost any material thing, when examined closely, can be a link between present and past. It argues that almost any material thing, when examined closely, can be a portal between present and past. Schechner, and sarah anne cartertake it upon themselves to defetishize the text by focusing attention on physical objects, or things. Challenges the boundaries between museums and between academic disciplines. Presents an innovative and unprecedented exhibition as a new framework for thinking about museum collections. By laurel thatcher ulrich, ivan gaskell, sara schechner, sarah anne carter, samantha van gerbig oxford university press, 2015. Tim boon, making history through objects, history workshop journal, dbaa001, s. Schechner, and sarah anne carter, with photographs by samantha s. Tangible things making history through objects epub. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading tangible things. Making history through objects by ulrich, laurel thatcher, carter, sarah anne, gaskell, ivan, schechner, sara, van gerbig, samantha isbn.

Nov, 2014 in a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Making history through objects by laurel thatcher ulrich, ivan gaskell, sara j. Making history through objects english edition ebook. Lyne starling trimble public lecture touching the sky. Ulrich, laurel thatcher, gaskell, ivan, schechner, sara, carter, sarah anne, van gerbig. Unlike the typical museum catalog, tangible things. People make history through the things they gather, create, collect, exhibit, exchange, throw away, or ignore. How science and culture shape the past, present, and future 2014, tangible things. Making history through objects by laurel thatcher ulrich, ivan gaskell, sara schechner, sarah anne carter, samantha van gerbig oxford university press, 2015. The works under consideration here can help us to think that through.

Making history through objects paperback average rating. Tangible things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and extraordinary things like the transit of planets across the. The tangible things project has explored the interdisciplinary potential of object study and the ways all kinds of material things may be employed to write history. It argues that almost any material thing, when examined closely, can be a link beween present and past. Samantha van gerbig based on the rich museum collections of harvard university, tangible things challenges rigid distinctions between history, anthropology, science, and the arts. Making history through objects with laurel ulrich, ivan gaskell and sarah schechner oxford university press 2015. Making history through objects is instead a more handson engagement with objects derived from a project undertaken in 2011 by the four authorslaurel thatcher ulrich, ivan gaskell, sara schechner, and sarah anne carterand a group of students in collaboration with the harvard university museums. In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Schechner, and sarah anne carter, with photo graphs by samantha s. Making history through objects by samantha van gerbig, laurel thatcher ulrich, sarah anne carter, ivan gaskell and sara schechner 2015, paperback at the best online prices at. Specific objects become the center of dynamic interdisciplinary storiesstories about love, international politics, racism, colonialism, scientific discovery, war, human rights.

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