Artifacts : how we think and write about found objects /

Artifacts : how we think and write about found objects /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lake, Crystal B., author.
Imprint:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. ©2020
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting -- History -- 18th century. Archaeology -- Political aspects -- History -- 18th century. Antiquarians -- 18th century. Antiquarians. Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting. Archaeology -- Political aspects. Electronic books. History.
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

Table of Contents:

0. Preface
0. Acknowledgments
0. Part 1
1. Leaving Room to Guess
2. Ten Thousand Gimcracks
0. Part 2
3. Coins
4. Manuscripts
5. Weapons
6. Grave Goods
0. Afterword
0. Notes
0. Works Cited
0. Index