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Showing 1 to 20 of 548 for “"Material Culture"”.
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William Morris and Medieval Material Culture
… of the past than were such artefacts of high culture as the great cathedrals and lavishly illustrated manuscripts, since it was through the surviving items of everyday use that Morris could best approach the creative lives of ordinary medieval men and women. For William Morris, the everyday …
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A comparison of the commoner material culture to that of the elite material culture at Great Zimbabwe
… area at Great Zimbabwe. Focus was aimed at material culture used by the underclass to understand how it compares with that of the upper class. The comparison between the elite and non-elite areas showed that there was not a large difference between the material cultures. The ceramic analysis …
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Intergenerational Teenage Motherhood: Memory and Material Culture
<p>This paper explores how memories and material culture can be used to understand intergenerational teenage motherhood. Intimate, feminist ethnography is used to explore the experiences of my mother and my grandmother who were both teenage mothers. Teenage mothers are blamed for perpetuating a …
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Transformational tales : media, makeovers, and material culture
This thesis probes into current American makeover culture, thorough three detailed case studies that represent an increasing confluence of commerce, entertainment, and, at times, spirituality. Each of the chapters is devoted to a niche media property, or genre, dedicated to the domestic sphere. The …
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Andriesgrond revisited : material culture, ideologies and social change
… aims of this thesis were to analyze all the material remains from the previous excavations and collate all written reports on Andriesgrond Cave. Only one article has been written on Andriesgrond Cave (Parkington 1978), while several articles have referred to single unpublished reports or …
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Stuff happens: a material culture approach to textile conservation
… objects as being subject to both material and social<br/>change. The dynamic aspects of this material and social process is<br/>emphasised as ‘stuff happens’. This research proposes, and provides<br/>evidence for, a material culture approach to textile conservation, …
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Elite Women and Material Culture in Ireland, 1770-1840
Through an extensive exploration of the archives of Irish estate houses, the thesis explores the involvement of women in the architecture and design of buildings, rooms and furniture. It documents the interest which women took in drawing and designing buildings and the layout of rooms. It also …
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British Political Material Culture in the Age of Reform, 1780-1832
Material culture studies seek to use objects as a source to examine how society functioned and was experienced. To develop three key points, this thesis takes a sample of objects from three growing industries during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; ceramics, textiles, and …
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Magic and the material culture of healing in early modern England
… I bring together items that vary according to material, size, shape, function and application, to reveal the diverse range of things used for cure and protection in this period. Some were everyday, relatively worthless things, while others were expensive, coveted rarities, and I use both types …
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Perceiving landscape: designing for the contemplation of material culture through time
… the earliest known evidence of modern human material culture: a record of complex tool use, collection of marine resources for food and use of natural pigments for symbolling practices. This is revealed by the archaeological excavation of 'midden' deposits - piles of refuse usually situated …
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Material culture, social networks, and the Chinese of Ouray, Colorado, 1880-1920
… analyses included organizing artifacts by material type, stylistic traits, function and minimum number of items. The production, acquisition and use contexts were also determined for artifacts when possible. Using historical sources, qualitative analyses began with researching the local …
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Rethinking the rhetoric of remix: copies and material culture in digital networks
… of representation to identify and analyze material practices and rhetorical claims about their cultural influence. Specifically, it identifies and critiques the influence of recording formats qua copies in the history of three forms of composition in popular-music culture—remixes, disco …
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Selling the British Empire Exhibition 1924 Through Mass Media and Material Culture
… of compulsory education, meant that printed material was more in demand than ever before and had a more diverse audience. This thesis will demonstrate the ways in which the various methods of mass media, together with the material and consumer culture of the era, were utilised to link the …
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Chickens in the archaeological material culture of Roman Britain, France, and Belgium.
… on the beliefs and symbolism of the affected cultures. However, an animal that people interact with so regularly influences more than simply their diet, and begins to creep into their cultural lexicon. What did chickens mean to the people of Roman Britain, France, and Belgium? The physical …
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Museums and material culture: Regionalism versus nationalism in the archaeological museums of Greece
… way and said to have direct influences on the material culture and its record. In this paper I will argue that the correlation runs strongly in the opposite direction: that the material culture is being used in the museums to shape national narratives and promote nationalism. This is not the …
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The Politics of Material Culture in the Early American Republic, c. 1800-15
… that everyday artisans and manufacturers used material culture to create a distinguishable “American” national identity in the early republic. Although some historians have argued that this process of “Americanization” was completed during the American Revolution or in its immediate aftermath, …
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Fibers and Fragments: Weaving local resources into the Arabian Gulf's modern material culture.
Considering the constraints of using solely local materials of the Arabian Gulf, this thesis explores two components that constitute a future construction practice: concrete in compression (mined from demolition sites) and carbon fibers in tension. The discovery of oil in 1932 accelerated the use …
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Precarious printers : labour, technology & material culture at the NSW Government Printing Office 1959-1989
… has brought to light many aspects of the Gov’s culture of working life (everyday practices and unofficial stories) and it indicates the important presence of objects, technologies and spaces as they exist in memories of working life. Two central coping practices are identified: building …
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