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Author(s) -
White Carolyn L.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
museum anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.197
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1548-1379
pISSN - 0892-8339
DOI - 10.1525/mua.2007.30.1.68
Subject(s) - adornment , materiality (auditing) , art history , interpretation (philosophy) , history , anthropology , white (mutation) , art , archaeology , sociology , aesthetics , philosophy , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Archaeologies of Materiality by Lynn Meskell, ed., Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. 229 pp. Carolyn L. White is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of Nevada, Reno. A historical archaeologist, she is particularly interested in material culture that can be linked to individual people, such as personal adornment and shoes. Her book, American Artifacts of Personal Adornment, 1680–1820: A Guide to Identification and Interpretation, was published in 2005 by AltaMira Press. She is co‐editor of the Guides to American Artifacts series, published by Left Coast Press.