Grasping Things: Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America

By Simon J. Bronner

Book Overview

In Pennsylvania, the "back to the city" movement causes a conflict of cultures. In Indiana, an old tradition of butchering turtles for church picnics evokes both pride and loathing among residents. In New York, folk-art exhibits raise choruses of adoration and protest. America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects. These are a few of the examples Simon Bronner uses to illustrate the ways Americans physically and mentally grasp things. Br This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813115728
• ISBN13: 9780813115726
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.