Elusive Archives: Material Culture Studies in Formation. Edited by Martin Brückner and Sandy Isenstadt. [Review

Abstract

Elusive Archives is the first volume in a series published by the University of Delaware Press called Material Culture Perspectives. It includes essays by several individuals who have been involved with the University of Delaware’s Center for Material Culture Studies and the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. Editors Brückner and Isenstadt, who also serve as the series editors, were formerly the codirectors of the Center for Material Culture Studies and are now affiliated faculty with the center. Brückner is director of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, while Isenstadt is professor and chair of the Art History Department at Delaware.