Beyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies/Material Culture/Vernacular Architecture

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Beyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies. Ed. Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan D. Gillespie. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp. xii + 269, 21 figures, 2 tables, references cited, index.)

Material Culture. By Henry Glassie. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999. Pp. 416,170 black-and-white photographs, 16 illustrations, bibliography, index.)

Vernacular Architecture. By Henrie Glassie. (Philadelphia: Material Culture; Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. Pp. 200,93 black-and-white and 32 color ...

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