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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Challenge of Folk Materials for New Jersey's Museums
Author: Historic Themes and Resources Within the New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail
Author: Kimberly R. SeboldPublisher:
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Category : Cape May County (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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American Studies
Author: Jack SalzmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521365598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.
The Dunlap Cabinetmakers
Author: Philip ZeaPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811702645
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
- Back by popular demand at a new, lower price - Complete materials lists and scaled drawings for 14 heirloom pieces - Fascinating background on the Dunlap family and its furniture The Dunlaps of New Hampshire began making fine furniture in the mid-1700s. Their distinctive tables, chests, chairs, and clockcases have their origins in the traditions that the Scots-Irish brought to the New World. Most Dunlap works are now in museums where they are studied by scholars, but thanks to the book's detailed scaled drawings and Donald Dunlap's construction notes, woodworkers can undertake the challenging proportions and ornament practiced by the Dunlaps. The 14 projects range from a simple knife box to an intricate tall clock and include a one-drawer stand, tea table, and desk. - knife box - one-drawer stand - card table - candle stand - folding stand - side chair - chest-on-frame - chest of drawers - dressing table - tea table - flat-top high chest of drawers - high chest of drawers with gallery - desk - tall clock
New Jersey History
Author: Vernacular Architecture Newsletter
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Category : Vernacular architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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New Jersey Folklife
Author: Folk Art
Author: "You Gotta Lean a Bit Into the Decorative"
Author: Thomas David CarrollPublisher:
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Category : Carving (Decorative arts)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The apparent history of the duck decoy may be described in terms of a series of transformations from hunting tool to collectible artifact to commodity. This transformational trajectory may be viewed, moreover, in an economic light: the decoy originally functions to provide ducks for subsistence or profit; it next enters collections which are at first owned by individuals who had some connection to the decoy as hunting tool, and where it begins to acquire associations with (market) price and to become dissociated from social and cultural relations of value; and it finally becomes a more or less "pure" commodity, where price (based on provenance) figures almost exclusively in defining its identity. This dissertation traces these transformations of the duck decoy, but does so by uncovering its dynamic history and displaying this as a part of the mentalite of coastal New Jersey in the last half of the nineteenth century. The argument is grounded in a close reading of three distinct but related bodies of material: (1) nineteenth century published sources such as sportsman's manuals and ornithological literature; (2) nineteenth century primary source materials generated locally along the New Jersey coast, such as newspaper accounts, census records, diaries, business ledgers, and related materials; and (3) interview materials collected ethnographically with twentieth century decoy carvers, hunters, collectors, haymen and local residents of the coastal towns. These materials collectively suggest that the decoy was part of a society and culture that actively resisted the penetration of capitalism and capitalist relations. It is on this ground that the decoy is a highly contested object today.
The American Backwoods Frontier
Author: Terry G. JordanPublisher:
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Category : Delaware River Estuary
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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