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Introduction: Object Lessons; Marlis Schweitzer and Joanne ZerdyPART I: ARCHIVAL DIGS1. Technology and Wonder in Thirteenth-Century Iberia and Beyond; Christopher Swift2. 'Nothing but a string of beads': Maud Allan's Salome; Costume as a 'choreographic thing'; Marlis Schweitzer3. Cartomania and the Scriptive Album: Cartes-de-Visite as Objects of Social Practice; Nicole Berkin4. The Linguistic Animation of an American Yorick; Lezlie C. Cross5. House Arrest: Museological Performance and the Everyday; Margaret WerryPART II: EMBODIED RESEARCH PRACTICES6. The Unfolding Roles of a Walking Map within NVA's Half Life; Joanne Zerdy7. Military Memorialization and its Object(s) of Period Purification; Helene Vosters8. Entided, Enwatered, Enwinded: Human/More-than-Human Agencies in Site-specific Performance; Minty DonaldPART III: MATERIALIST SEMIOTICS9. 'All Transparent': Pepper's Ghost, Plate Glass, and Theatrical Transformation; Aileen Robinson10. Que(e)rying Theatrical Objects; Benjamin Gillespie11. Making the Invisible Visible: Virtual Stage Props and Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus; Joanne Tompkins12. Relic, Souvenir, or Just Hair?: Exploring the Complexities of Objects as Actants and Things as Mementos in the Merchandise of El Vez, The Mexican Elvis; Karen Jean MartinsonPART IV: EXCAVATING BETWEEN THE LINES13. Props Breaking Character: The Performance and Failure of Real Objects on the Naturalist Stage; Kee-Yoon Nahm14. Bodied Objects: An Analysis of the Whip in George Aiken's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man; Chandra Owenby Hopkins15. Translocalized Drums: Mobilizing the Intercultural in the Cantares Mexicanos; Leo Cabranes-GrantEndnotesWorks CitedIndex.