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“Material Culture Studies” and other Ways to Theorize Objects: A Primer to a Regional Debate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2011

Haidy Geismar
Haidy Geismar*
Affiliation:
Anthropology and Museum Studies, New York University
*
haidy.geismar@nyu.edu
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 210 - 218
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 2011

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