This collection of essays explores the stories that can be told by and about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining collecting in different his

Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told about objects and those who choose to collec

How are love and emotion embodied in material form? Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing how objects can function as fetishes, symb

In 1866, Alexander Dunlop, a free black living in Williamsburg Virginia, did three unusual things. He had an audience with the President of the United States, t

Combining ethnographic and archival research, this book examines the lives of colonial-period postcards and reveals how they become objects of contemporary hist