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Material Memories: The Parachute Wedding Gowns of American Brides, 1945-1949Wagner, Carolyn 19 October 2015 (has links)
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Study of a Cleveland, Ohio, Tailoring Business, 1854-1923: Elias Rheinheimer and SonWamboldt, Carly R. 28 May 2015 (has links)
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Have You Heard the One About the Woman Driver? Chicks, Muscle, Pickups, and the Reimagining of the Woman Behind the WheelLezotte, Christine L. 16 April 2015 (has links)
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Literary Objects in Eighteenth-Century British LiteratureLyons-McFarland, Helen Michelle 31 August 2018 (has links)
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Syrian Newcomer Objects: A Study in Material Culture and Forced MigrationAydin, Fulden Elif January 2023 (has links)
This research explores the world of material belongings of Muslim Syrian newcomer/refugee families as they establish themselves in Canada since 2015. The study centers the cultural and emotional meanings of the material belongings by looking at both those that are brought with the newcomers and those that are left behind. It aims to shed light on how these objects hold memories and connect refugees to their cultural and personal histories while also examining the role of displacement in this context. Additionally, it investigates the different perspectives between generations by looking into how the value and meaning of belongings may alter between older and younger family members. The key questions of the study develop at the intersection of material culture and forced migration. It first examines whether material belongings hold a significant place in the everyday lives of refugees and how this reflects on their memories. Secondly, it considers if migration and the experience that comes with it alters refugees’ attachments to their material belongings and leads to changing their sentimental value over time. Thirdly, it evaluates whether the decision-making process behind what refugees choose to bring with them and what they decide to leave behind is affected under distressing circumstances. Methodologically, the study offers an alternative ethnographic approach by braiding migrant narratives with object biographies, shifting the subject of the narrative toward a demonstration of the interrelationships of persons and things. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)
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[en] TRAJECTORY OF THE BACKPACKER SELF: ON THE ROAD OF BODY, SOUL AND ARTIFACTS / [pt] TRAJETÓRIAS DO EU MOCHILEIRO: NA ESTRADA DE CORPO, ALMA E ARTEFATOSDEBORA DE PAULA FALCO 22 May 2019 (has links)
[pt] Este trabalho tem por questão investigar a trajetória do eu durante a viagem mochileira. O objetivo é verificar os caminhos possíveis para a compreensão das transformações identitárias destes sujeitos que se identificam como mochileiros. Para isto, considerou-se as circunstâncias da modernidade tardia. A partir disto, traçou-se um caminho teórico regido pela Teoria das Representações Sociais. Para notar as modulações as quais o sujeito se expõe durante a viagem recorre-se à antropologia do consumo, à antropologia do corpo e à cultura material. Estas teorias unidas permitiram vislumbrar, em certa medida, a trajetória do eu na viagem mochileira. Para empreender esta pesquisa utilizou-se os conceitos de vários autores, com destaque para Serge Moscovici, Anthony Giddens, David Le Breton, Daniel Miller e Colin Campbell. A pesquisa recorreu à metodologia da entrevista em profundidade de cunho qualitativo, tendo como coadjuvante a metodologia da autoetnografia. Assim, pode-se contemplar as teorias propostas à luz do depoimento de mochileiros que possuem canais de divulgação de suas experiências de viagem na mídia. Verificou-se, com isto, que a viagem mochileira possui valores associados como liberdade, independência, aventura, autoconhecimento, encontro com a alteridade, desprendimento e a possibilidade de ruptura de representações arraigadas. No entanto, todos estes aspectos para serem levados a termo necessitam que o mochileiro apresente uma postura crítica e participativa no destino em que se insere. Constatou-se que as pessoas que se identificam com esta posição de sujeito – mochileiro – estão dispostas a viver a viagem nesta direção. Sendo assim, verificou-se que a viagem de mochila pode ser uma forma de render a tão aspirada plasticidade da identidade ao indivíduo que nela se imerge. / [en] This work is about investigating the trajectory of self during a backpacking trip. The goal is to identify the paths to an understanding of identity transformations and the identities they identify as backpackers. For this, it was considered as decisions of late modernity. From this, a theoretical path was traced by the Social Representations Theory. For the recognition of modalities as the subject on display during the trip, it is important to make an analysis of the consumption, the anthropology of the body and the culture. Theories allow you to view, to a certain extent, the backpack trip. In order to undertake this research, a number of authors were used, most notably Serge Moscovici, Anthony Giddens, David Le Breton, Daniel Miller and Colin Campbell. This research used the methodology of the qualitative interview in depth, having as an adjunct the methodology of autoethnography. Thus, one can contemplate the theories in the light of the testimony of backpackers who have dissemination channels of their travel experiences in the media. It was verified, therefore, that the backpacking trip has values such as freedom, independence, adventure, self-knowledge, encounter with the otherness, detachment and the possibility of rupture of ingrained representations. However, for all aspects being able to arrive to a conclusion it needs that the backpacker presents a critical and participation in the destination in which it fits. It has been found that the people who identify with this position of subject - backpacker - are willing to live a trip in this direction. Thus, it has been found that a backpacking trip can be a way of making one aspired to the plasticity of identity to the example that is immersed.
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Gold, Stonework and Feathers: Mexica Material Culture and the Making of Hapsburg EuropeBenjamin, Aliza M. January 2019 (has links)
This dissertation examines the initial contacts and cultural encounters between Europe and the Mexica and investigates the ways in which the Mexica treasures acquired by the conquistadores played a pivotal role in shaping social, cultural, political and religious perceptions and misperceptions about the Mexica, Hapsburgs and their empire, and Europe as a whole in the early sixteenth-century. The initial shipment of art, artifacts, weapons and other goods given to King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V Hapsburg by the Mexica ruler Moctezuma (via Hernán Cortés) arrived in Seville on November 5th, 1519, followed by additional deliveries soon thereafter. The objects included in these shipments would play a significant role in shaping and promoting the newly-expanded imperial identity, while simultaneously contributing to the European audience’s construction of an identity for the indigenous peoples of the New World, doing so through a European vision and recontextualization of pre-Columbian and earlypost-Conquest art and artifacts. This project explores these issues by focusing on three specific media: gold, mosaics (or small stonework) and featherwork, the three media most associated with the indigenous peoples and most coveted by European audiences. In doing so, I seek to understand what it was about these media specifically that inspired their new-found audiences to desire these materials so intensely, above all other forms of production to be found in the pre-Columbian Americas; how each art form fit into existing preconceptions and was used to shape new identities and beliefs about both cultures; and what we learn from answering these questions. / Art History
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Making History: Applications of Digitization and Materialization Projects in RepositoriesMiller, Megan January 2014 (has links)
This project draws upon material culture, digital humanities, and archival theory and method in the service of public history investigations. After selecting an artifact and performing object analysis, I will digitize the artifact and materialize a new object. I will then perform another object analysis on the 3D printed object. This exercise will provide the familiar benefits of object analysis, but the decisions and interactions necessary to digitize and materialize the object provide a fresh perspective. I will propose approaches for performing similar investigations in repositories, along with a pedagogical argument for doing so. By emphasizing modularity, flexibility, and minimal capital requirements, I hope these approaches can be adapted to a variety of institutions and audiences. Researchers will reap the benefits of intellectual and emotional engagement, hands-on learning, and technological experimentation. Public historians will have the opportunity to engage in outreach and innovative education and exploration of their collections. / History
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The Art of the Airport: Using Public History and Material Culture to Humanize and Interpret the American AirportSmith III, John E. January 2018 (has links)
In recent decades, government officials and social scientists have increased their study of American airports and their relationship to security and national defense. Despite the growing attention, airports remain interpreted primarily as homogenized, transient spaces deprived of any culturally unique qualities. This thesis will study American airports as historical artifacts with significant layers of meaning. If contextualized and situated within a broader historical framework, then airports expose larger trends throughout American history including resistance to multiculturalism and diversity. The stress and anxiety often associated with airports reflect a prolonged struggle to embrace the democratization of public places. If studied with an historical approach from multiple perspectives, then the airport provides historians with a tangible, familiar object to engage popular audiences about complicated issues such as surveillance, xenophobia, and urban renewal. This thesis proposes a conceptual framework for historians to assess the significance of airport space and offers suggestions to better engage the national conversations surrounding these complicated spaces. / History
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Materializing Blackness: The Politics and Production of African Diasporic HeritageWebb, Brittany January 2018 (has links)
"Materializing Blackness: The Politics and Production of African Diasporic Heritage” examines how intellectual and civic histories collide with the larger trends in the arts and culture sector and the local political economy to produce exhibitions at the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) and structure the work that museum exhibitions do to produce race visually for various audiences. Black museums are engaged in the social construction of race through their exhibitions and programs: selecting historical facts, objects and practices, and designating them as heritage for and to their audiences. In tracking this work, I am interested in 1) the assemblages of exhibits that are produced, as a function of 2) the internal logics of the producing institutions and 3) larger forces that structure the field as a whole. Looking at exhibits that engage Blackness, I examine how heritage institutions use art and artifacts to visually produce race, how their audiences consume it, and how the industry itself is produced as a viable consumptive market. Undergirded by the ways anthropologists of race and ethnicity have been explored and historicized race as a social construction I focus on an instantiation of the ways race is constructed in real time in the museum. This project engages deeply with inquiries about the social construction of race and Blackness, such as: how is Blackness rendered coherent by the art and artifacts in exhibitions? How are these visual displays of race a function of the museums that produce them and political economy of the field of arts and culture? Attending to the visual, intellectual, and political economic histories of networks of exhibiting institutions and based on ethnographic fieldwork in and on museums and other exhibiting institutions, this dissertation contextualizes and traces the production and circulation of the art and artifacts that produce the exhibitions and the museum itself as a way to provide a contemporary concrete answer. Overall “Materializing Blackness” makes the case for history and political economy as ghosts of production that have an outsized impact on what we see on exhibition walls, and are as important to the visual work as a result. Further it takes the Black museum as a site of anthropological engagement as a way to see the conjuncture of the aesthetic and the political, the historical and the material in one complicated node of institution building and racecraft in the neoliberal city. / Anthropology
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