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The 38 pages that link to Material culture, each with the reason it gives.

• Social historyRelated: Homes and possessions offer evidence about consumption, work, and social distinction.

• Everyday lifeRelated: Household objects and technologies enable, constrain, and signify everyday actions.

• Cultural historyRelated: Objects can reveal cultural habits and meanings beyond what written records state.

• Folk artRelated: Local materials and everyday objects are both the medium and subject of much folk art.

• Historical anthropologyRelated: Objects extend inquiry beyond written records to consumption, work, and status.

• Conservation and restoration of cultural propertyRelated: Objects carry social evidence as well as physical materials to preserve.

• CraftivismRelated: Craftivism relies on objects whose materials, uses, and histories affect their political meaning.

• History of IdeasRelated: It raises the question of whether ideas can be understood apart from their material forms.

• Social practiceRelated: Tools and settings participate in practices rather than merely surrounding them.

• National Museum of American HistoryRelated: Material culture helps explain why everyday artifacts can document social and political change.