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Preface

Popular Culture in the Museum

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Folk Culture- Discovery and Invention

The Ethnographic Perspective

Man and Environment

Nature and Civilization

The Cultivated Landscape

Fire, Hearth and Oven

Cultural Patterns and Characteristics of an Era:

Upper Inn Valley Farmhouse Parlour

Home Decorative Style:

Chests, Cupboards and Chairs from Tyrol and Vorarlberg

Regional Stylistic Variation: The Montafon Parlour.

Man and Economy

Agriculture

Pre- modern Transport

Paths, Goods, Markets

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Domestic Economics

Myth

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The Order of Existence

Man and History

The History of the People

Peoples and Imagery

History and Religion: Catholic and Protestant Rural Furniture

Man and Society

Estate Culture

Pastoral Pride: Upper Austrian Rural Furniture

Lifestyles in Transition

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