Artifacts : how we think and write about found objects /

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Author / Creator:Lake, Crystal B., author.
Imprint:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
©2020
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12542794
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ISBN:9781421436517
1421436515
9781421436494
1421436493
9781421436500
1421436507
Summary:"The book is a study of the artifacts that antiquarians (a.k.a. antiquaries) collected in the long eighteenth century. The author considers what objects drew their attention and how they interpreted and wrote about them--in politically charged ways and not with pure historical objectivity as they claimed. The book brings together material studies and literary studies. Part 1 presents a theory of the artifact, and part 2 presents case studies of particular artifacts: coins, manuscripts, weapons, and grave goods"--
Other form:Print version: 9781421436494 1421436493