TY - BOOK AU - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich AU - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich TI - Tangible things : : making history through objects SN - 9780199382286 U1 - 303.4 ULR PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - : Oxford University Press KW - Social Sciences KW - Social evolution KW - Civilization N1 - Introduction : Thinking with things -- Things in place -- Things unplaced -- Things out of place -- Things in stories, stories in things -- Appendix : Glossary of Harvard collections -- Photo essay : Unexpected discoveries : the joy of object photography N2 - In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Tangible Things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and extraordinary things like the transit of planets across the sky. It argues that almost any material thing, when examined closely, can be a link between present and past ER -