This profusely illustrated collection of essays, winner of the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize as the best folklore book of 1990, should engage anyone with an interes

This profusely illustrated collection of essays, winner of the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize as the best folklore book of 1990, should engage anyone with an interes

Sources are the raw material of history, but where the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source, today historians are increasingly recog

Weaving together literary and scholarly insights, History and Its Objects will prove indispensable reading for historians and cultural historians, as well as an

Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen