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In small things forgotten /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: First Anchor Books, 1996Copyright date: 1996Description: xiii, 284 pages : 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780385483995
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F6 DEE
Contents:
1. Recalling Things Forgotten: Archaeology and the American Artifact 2. The Anglo-American Past 3. All the Earthenware Plain and Flowered 4. Remember Me as You Pass By 5. I Would Have the Howse Stronge in Timber 6. Small Things Remembered 7. Parting Ways 8. The African American Past 9. Small Things Forgotten
Summary: History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past is given new dimensions by studying the small things so often forgotten. Doorways, gravestones, musical instruments, and shards of pottery (objects so plain they would never be displayed in a museum) depict the intricacies of daily life. In this completely revised and expanded edition of In Small Things Forgotten, Deetz has added a chapter addressing the influence of African culture - a culture so strong it survived the Middle Passage and the oppression of slavery - on America in the years following the settler's arrival in Jamestown, Virginia. Simultaneously a study of American life and an explanation of how American life is studied, In Small Things Forgotten colorfully depicts a world hundreds of years in the past through the details of ordinary living
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Archive Archive Main Library Archives F6 DEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 54650 Not for loan BK7467
Archive Archive Main Library Archives F 6 DEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 54649 Not for loan BK1379
Book Book Zvishavane Library Open Shelf F6 DEE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 54653 Available BK1110

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Recalling Things Forgotten: Archaeology and the American Artifact 2. The Anglo-American Past 3. All the Earthenware Plain and Flowered 4. Remember Me as You Pass By 5. I Would Have the Howse Stronge in Timber 6. Small Things Remembered 7. Parting Ways 8. The African American Past 9. Small Things Forgotten

History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past is given new dimensions by studying the small things so often forgotten. Doorways, gravestones, musical instruments, and shards of pottery (objects so plain they would never be displayed in a museum) depict the intricacies of daily life. In this completely revised and expanded edition of In Small Things Forgotten, Deetz has added a chapter addressing the influence of African culture - a culture so strong it survived the Middle Passage and the oppression of slavery - on America in the years following the settler's arrival in Jamestown, Virginia. Simultaneously a study of American life and an explanation of how American life is studied, In Small Things Forgotten colorfully depicts a world hundreds of years in the past through the details of ordinary living

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