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Material Things and Cultural Meanings: Notes on the Study of Early American Material Culture [PDF]

open access: possibleThe William and Mary Quarterly, 1996
The women sat among the doomed things, turning them over and looking past them and back. This book. My father had it. He liked a book. Pilgrim's Progress. Used to read it. Got his name in it, right here. And his pipe-still smells rank. And this picture-an angel. I looked at it before the fust three come-didn't seem to do much good.
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Material culture and African-American spirituality at the hermitage [PDF]

open access: possibleHistorical Archaeology, 1997
In this article, artifacts excavated from 19th-century African-American contexts at the Hermitage plantation near Nashville, Tennessee, are examined in light of their possible use in religious ritual, traditional healing, and other behaviors related to spirituality.
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