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Grasping Things : Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America

By Simon J. Bronner

Book information

Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Year
1986
ISBN
9780813148564, 9780813115726
LCC
E161 -- .B78 2005eb
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
13 MB (13685863 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
272\0
Time added
2023-08-07 11:53:56
Material culture -- Indiana. ; Food habits -- Unit

Description

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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