{"id":17,"date":"2017-08-26T21:25:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T01:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/lesley\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2017-09-03T16:43:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T20:43:50","slug":"syllabus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/lesley\/syllabus\/","title":{"rendered":"For Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Syllabus\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/lesley\/files\/2017\/08\/materialculturesyllabusFall2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/lesley\/files\/2017\/08\/materialculturesyllabusFall2017.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Readings\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/wk8hmg1ytt23gpi\/AACsv_UsAaakTZG99q8kHv54a?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/wk8hmg1ytt23gpi\/AACsv_UsAaakTZG99q8kHv54a?dl=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Studies in American Material Culture<\/em>\u00a0(<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">History 8151)<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">introduces students to the major themes and methods relevant to the study of objects and the past. We will consider the variety of ways in which scholars from diverse fields have sought to infer meaning from things and then seek specifically to understand how historians have applied those ideas to their own work. During Fall 2017, we will meet entirely at Philadelphia\u2019s Independence Seaport Museum. Students will experiment with traditional production techniques in the museum\u2019s boat shop, consider how collecting institutions manage material culture aboard its ships and in its exhibit halls, and conduct research in the museum\u2019s archive and library. We will use this opportunity especially to consider the materiality of Philadelphia\u2019s historic waterfront and its embededness within the global circulation of things and ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Become familiar with major scholarship bearing on historians\u2019 uses of material culture;<\/li>\n<li>Understand methods for using objects as historical evidence;<\/li>\n<li>Learn to incorporate material culture into written historical analysis;<\/li>\n<li>Explore how material culture is managed and exhibited in historical institutions; and,<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Discover how material culture functions in public historical interpretation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tentative Meeting \/ Reading Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aug. 30: Getting Oriented<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Introductions and quiet time with LESLEY.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer L. Roberts, \u201cThe Power of Patience: Teaching Students the Value of Deceleration and Immerisvie Attention,\u201d <em>Harvard Magazine<\/em> (November-December 2013): 40-43.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 6: The Sneakbox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Explore ISM\u2019s sneakbox collection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jules David Prown, \u201cMind in Matter,\u201d Winterthur Portfolio 17 (1982): 1-19.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Ott, \u201cObject Analysis of the Giant Pumpkin,\u201d <em>Environmental History<\/em> 15 (October 2010): 746-63.<\/p>\n<p>Howard I. Chapelle, \u201cThe Barnegat Sneak Box,\u201d in <em>American Small Sailing Craft: Their Design Development, and Construction<\/em> (New York and London: W.W. Norton &amp; Company, 1951), 209-17.<\/p>\n<p>Eric L. Stark, \u201cThe Barnegat Bay Sneakbox,\u201d <em>WoodenBoat<\/em> 47 (July\/August 1982): 102-07.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Hufford, &#8220;\u201cOne Reason God Made Trees\u201d: The Form and Ecology of the Barnegat Bay Sneakbox,&#8221; in <i>Sense Of Place: American Regional Cultures<\/i>, edited by Barbara Allen and Thomas J. Schlereth (<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">University Press of Kentucky, 1990),\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">40-57.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Michael J. Chiarappa, &#8220;Affirmed Objects in Affirmed Places: History, Geographic Sentiment and a Region&#8217;s Crafts,&#8221; <i>Journal of Design History<\/i> 10:4 (1997): 399-415.<\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel H. Bishop, <em>Four Months in a Sneak-Box: A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf of Mexico<\/em> (Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1879), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/eldritch\/nhb\/SB.HTM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/eldritch\/nhb\/SB.HTM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grace Schultz, \u201cIndependence Seaport Museum,\u201d <em>The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/philadelphiaencyclopedia.org\/archive\/independence-seaport-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/philadelphiaencyclopedia.org\/archive\/independence-seaport-museum\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 13: LESLEY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Documentation workshop: taking LESLEY\u2019s lines and photogrammetry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>John McPhee, <em>The Survival of the Bark Canoe<\/em> (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1975), 23-54.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Nemerov, \u201cDescribing Is Descending,\u201d in catalogue to the exhibition, <em>Moby-Dick\u00a0<\/em>(San Francisco: Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2009): 117-26.<\/p>\n<p>Martin A. Berger, \u201cThe Problem with Close Looking,\u201d in John Davis, Jennifer A. Greenhill, and Jason D. LaFountain, eds.,<em> A Companion to American Art<\/em> (New York: John Wiley &amp; Sons, 2015), 113-27.<\/p>\n<p>David A. Taylor, <em>Documenting Maritime Folklife: An Introductory Guide<\/em> (Washington: Library of Congress, 1992), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/folklife\/maritime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/folklife\/maritime\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Willits Ansel, et al., Boats: A Manual for Their Documentat (Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1993).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 20: Why We Need Things<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Meeting our objects with Craig Bruns.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, \u201cWhy We Need Things,\u201d in Steven Lubar and W. David Kingery, eds., <em>History from Things: Essays on Material Culture<\/em> (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993).<\/p>\n<p>Bruno Latour, \u201cA Collective of Humans and Nonhumans: Following Daedalus\u2019s Labyrinth,\u201d in <em>Pandora\u2019s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies<\/em> (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), 174-215.<\/p>\n<p>Sherry Turkle, \u201cIntroduction: The Things That Matter,\u201d in <em>Evocative Objects: Things We Think With<\/em> (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007), 3-10.<\/p>\n<p>Erving Goffman, <em>The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life<\/em> (New York: Anchor Books, 1959), 17-30.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 27: Approaches to Object Study<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Classroom conversation and catch-up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cary Carson, \u201cMaterial Culture History: The Scholarship Nobody Knows,\u201d in Ann Smart Martin and J. Ritchie Garrison, eds., <em>American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field<\/em> (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997), 401-28.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Glassie, <em>Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States<\/em> (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968), 1-17.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Ames, \u201cMeaning in Artifacts: Hall Furnishings in Victorian America,\u201d <em>Journal of Interdisciplinary History<\/em> 9 (1978): 19-46.<\/p>\n<p>Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, \u201cAn Unfinished Stocking, New England, 1837,\u201d in <em>The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth<\/em> (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001), 374-412.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Bernstein, \u201cDances with Things: Material Culture and the Performance of Race,\u201d <em>Social Text<\/em> 27:4 (2009): 67-94.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca K. Shrum, \u201cSelling Mr. Coffee: Design, Gender, and the Branding of a Kitchen Appliance,\u201d <em>Winterthur Portfolio<\/em> 46:4 (2012): 271-98.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Van Horn, \u201cGeorge Washington\u2019s Dentures: Disability, Deception, and the Republican Body,\u201d <em>Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/em> 14:1 (Winter 2016), 2-47.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oct. 4: Plans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>Lofting Workshop with John Brady<\/em><\/p>\n<p>John R. Stilgoe, \u201cSkiffs,\u201d in <em>Alongshore<\/em> (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994).<\/p>\n<p>John Brady, \u201cJersey Cats,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodboatbuilder.com\/pages\/jerseycats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.woodboatbuilder.com\/pages\/jerseycats.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oct. 11: Making and Fixing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Visit with ISM\u2019s <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillyseaport.org\/Workshoponthewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Workshop on the Water<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>David Pye, \u201cThe Workmanship of Certainty and the Workmanship of Risk,\u201d in <em>The Nature and Art of Workmanship<\/em> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968).<\/p>\n<p>Howard I. Chapelle, \u201cIntroduction,\u201d in <em>Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction<\/em> (New York and London: W.W. Norton &amp; Company, 1941), 19-22.<\/p>\n<p>Lambros Malafouris, \u201cAt the Potter\u2019s Wheel: An Argument for Material Agency,\u201d in Knappett and Malafouris, eds., <em>Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach<\/em> (Springer, 2008), 19-36.<\/p>\n<p>Ann-Sophie Lehmann, \u201cHow Materials Make Meaning,\u201d in Lehmann et al., eds., <em>Meaning in Materials, 1400-1800<\/em> (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003), 7-27.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Korn, \u201cThinging With Things,\u201d in <em>Why We Make Things and Why it Matters: The Education of a Crafstman<\/em> (Boston: David R. Godine Press, 2015), 57-68.<\/p>\n<p>Steven J. Jackson, \u201cRethinking Repair,\u201d in Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo Boczkowski, and Kirsten Foot, eds., <em>Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality and Society<\/em> (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oct. 18: Commodities \/ Value<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In the galleries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Selections from Jennifer L. Anderson, <em>Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America <\/em>(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012).<\/p>\n<p>Igor Kopytoff, \u201cThe Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as a Process,\u201d in Arjun Appadurai, ed., <em>The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective<\/em> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).<\/p>\n<p>Peter Stallybrass, &#8220;Marx&#8217;s Coat,&#8221; in Patricia Spyer, ed., <em>Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces<\/em> (New York: Routledge, 1998).<\/p>\n<p>Ann Smart Martin, &#8220;Makers,\u00a0Buyers, and\u00a0Users:\u00a0Consumerism as a Material Culture Framework,&#8221; <em>Winterthur Portfolio<\/em> 28 2\/3 (Autumn 1993): 141-157.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Bennett. &#8220;Commodity Fetishism and Commodity Enchantment.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Theory &amp; Event<\/em>\u00a05:1 (2001).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oct. 25: Space and Place<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>River adventure.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>J.B. Jackson, \u201cA Sense of Place, A Sense of Time,\u201d in <em>A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time<\/em> (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).<\/p>\n<p>John R. Stilgoe, \u201cAlongshore,\u201d in <em>Alongshore<\/em> (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994).<\/p>\n<p>Dell Upton, \u201cWhite and Black Landscapes in Eighteenth-Century Virginia,\u201d in Robert Blair St. George, ed., <em>Material Life in America, 1600-1860<\/em> (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988).<\/p>\n<p>Selections from Marcus Rediker, \u201cThe Evolution of the Slave Ship,\u201d in <em>The Slave Ship: A Human History<\/em> (New York: Penguin Books, 2008).<\/p>\n<p>Jane E. Dusselier, \u201cRemaking Inside Places,\u201d in <em>Artifacts of Loss: Crafting Survival in Japanese American Concentration Camps<\/em> (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov. 1: Exhibiting things<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Aboard the Cruiser Olympia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seth C. Bruggeman, \u201c\u201dSave the Olympia!\u201d: Veterans and the Preservation of Dewey\u2019s Flagship in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ken Yellis, \u201cExamining the Social Responsibility of Museums in a Changing World,\u201d Artes Magazine (November 13, 2011), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artesmagazine.com\/?p=7046\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.artesmagazine.com\/?p=7046<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert Weyeneth, \u201cThe Architecture of Racial Segregation: The Challenges of Preserving the Problematical Past,\u201d <em>The Public Historian<\/em> 27 (Fall 2005): 11-44<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov. 8: On Copies and Authenticity <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Walter Benjamin, \u201cThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,\u201d in Hannah Arendt, ed., <em>Illuminations: Essays and Reflections<\/em> (New York: Schocken Books, 1969).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov. 15: Objects and\/in Memory <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Waterfront monument walking tour, weather permitting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Erika Doss, \u201cAfterword: Commemoration, Conversation, and Public Feeling in America Today,\u201d in Seth C. Bruggeman, ed., <em>Commemoration: The American Association for State and Local History Guide<\/em> (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Selections from Kirk Savage, <em>Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America<\/em> (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov. 22: Fall Break<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov. 29: Final Presentation of Findings with ISM Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dec. 6: Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Carlo Rovelli, \u201cThird Lesson: Particles,\u201d and \u201cFourth Lesson: Grains of Space,\u201d in <em>Seven Brief Lessons on Physics<\/em> (New York: Riverhead Boos, 2014).<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Gefter, \u201cThe Case Against Reality,\u201d <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, April 25, 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2016\/04\/the-illusion-of-reality\/479559\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2016\/04\/the-illusion-of-reality\/479559\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus\u00a0 https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/lesley\/files\/2017\/08\/materialculturesyllabusFall2017.pdf Course Readings\u00a0 https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/wk8hmg1ytt23gpi\/AACsv_UsAaakTZG99q8kHv54a?dl=0 Course Description Studies in American Material Culture\u00a0(History 8151)\u00a0introduces students to the major themes and methods relevant to the study of objects and the past. 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