Description: While attending to the material world, these case studies explicate the manner in which the tangible and intangible, the material and the meaningful, are constantly entwined and co-constituted.
Review Quotes:
"Material Vernaculars' key contribution to material culture studies is the commitment of each of its authors to foreground the visual and verbal performances and narratives necessary to connect people and objects, an approach largely absent in other studies of materiality. The volume emphasizes the multiple ways that community members use objects as vehicles for social action and expression, processes fully intertwined with social life."--Journal of Anthropological Research
"Taken together, the essays--all of them richly illustrated with images in color--demonstrate the value of material culture studies to folkloristics."--Western Folklore