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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Material Culture Studies"”.
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Challenging Fragmentation: Overcoming the Subject-Object Divide through the Integration of Art-Making and Material Culture Studies
… explores ways in which to integrate art and material culture studies as a manifestation of philosophy’s process thread. In doing so, its goal is to generate a praxis which is able to come to holistic terms with the fragmenting dualism of subject-object binaries. By seizing my own subjectivity …
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Phallic metaphors and feminist perspectives : unsettling the Linnaean Botanical Archive through historiographic technique and studio practice
… subversive. Drawing on feminist historiography, material culture studies, and archival theory, the project interrogates Carl Linnaeus' (1707-1778) sexual system of plant classification, arguing that its metaphorical alignment of botanical reproduction with human marriage naturalised and …
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Hiding in plain sight: Virginia oystering and landscapes of abolitionism
… This thesis emphasizes the importance of the ‘culture’ part of the field of material culture studies, using the case study of the 1832 stolen whaleboat escape. The liminal nature of the Virginia Eastern Shore’s cultural landscape illustrates how culture dictated the freedom-seekers’ choice of …
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Roadside Memorials in Five South Central Kentucky Counties
… in these memorials. Unlike most death-related material culture studies, this research is built heavily upon interviews and conversations with those who construct and maintain the memorials. Much of the analysis of this thesis consists of in-depth explorations of particular roadside memorials …
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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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An Analysis of Modified Material Culture from Amache: Investigating the Landscape of Japanese American Internment
<p>Modified material culture is a class of objects that indicates a transformation of material function. Archaeological research at the Japanese American internment camp in Granada, Colorado, called Amache, has recently uncovered artifacts featuring evidence of modification. Previous studies at …
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Materialising Power: The Role of looted European Cultural Objects in Nazi Elite Self-fashioning
… Himmler, the study reveals how each leader used material culture differently. For Hitler, imperial regalia and funerary remains constructed a mythic narrative of German continuity, legitimising his role as heir to imperial tradition. Göring transformed his estate, Carinhall, into both a private …
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Curatorial Interruption: Critical analysis of sources of decision-making bias in dress/fashion curators and examination of the impact of curatorial bias on wearer/object biography in worn clothing acquired by institutional collections in the United Kingdom
… ethnography, neuroscience, phenomenology, new materialist studies, and material culture studies to construct an understanding of practitioner experience when analysing and interpreting worn clothing objects. The impact of curatorial bias on object biography during material culture analysis is …
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The construction and use of categories of Neolithic pottery from Wales
… and history in archaeology, biological science, material culture studies, and philosophy to build a pragmatic methodology for the study of the material. This methodology is particularly based upon the ideas of Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Rorty. A discussion of the evidence for the Neolithic …
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History as database: bioshock and the new design source
… to draw connections between historic and digital material culture. ☐ This research adds to a growing list of methodologies in the emerging field of Archaeogaming while expanding the field of material culture studies into the digital realm. It likewise encourages museums and academics to make their …
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Lost in the Long Books: Revealing the organisation, operations and uses of the collegiate gardens in the University of Oxford between 1733 and 1837
… and contemporary literature. The identified material was then assessed and interpreted using thick description and Reception theory. Adopting approaches used in material culture studies made it possible to identify the technologies and skills that had been used in the gardens. The core period …
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Interpretive Communities at work and play in the built environment
… of case study investigations this programme of studies applies the related concepts of ‘interpretive communities’ (Fish 1980) and ‘communities of practice’ (Wenger 1998) to the contemplation of, and interaction with, a variety of seemingly mundane places and structures within the built …
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The Senses of Fundamentalism: A Material History of Sensing Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century American Fundamentalism
<p>The Senses of Fundamentalism: A Material History of Sensing Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century American Fundamentalism offers a new historical narrative about the rise of fundamentalism. I argue that sensing bodies laid the foundation of fundamentalism. New kinds of Christian sensory practices …
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An investigation into the cultural meanings of contemporary mourning and memento mori jewellery (London 1980-2008)
… It is sourced from the funeral industry, subculture, studio jewellery, pop memorabilia, mass market and avant-garde fashion. In addition, the thesis examines the narratives and meanings that jewellery is imbued with by individuals following bereavement or illness. It addresses questions of …
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John Tenniel and Technology: Anachronism and Social Meaning
… these tendencies through the threefold lenses of Material Culture Studies, Social Constructivism, and Nostalgia Studies in an attempt to link Tenniel's treatment of medieval iconography and depiction of modern technology with the nostalgic past.
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Pedagogies of ‘Good Design’ and Handling in Relation to the I.L.E.A./Camberwell Collection
… thesis investigates educational aspects of material culture, examining the I.L.E.A./Camberwell Collection as a case study for the teaching of ‘good design’ in post-war Britain from 1951 to 1977. The methodological approaches used are drawn from the disciplines of design history, material …
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Elusive matter, material bodies: American art in the age of electronic mediation, 1865-1918
… and interconnection surged throughout American culture, encouraged by the advent of the electromagnetic telegraph. While the fluid transmission of information over vast distances offered the democratic ideal of interconnectedness, its dematerialized process eluded public understanding. …
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SCISSION: The Architectural Collage and Gordon Matta-Clark's Circus Caribbean Orange
… operation. Bridging archival research, material culture studies and critical theory, the dissertation advances three claims. First, purposeful subtraction—breaking, excising, peeling, splitting—has been embedded in architectural practice from spolia and sgraffito to post-digital …
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Washington's Main Street: Consensus and Conflict on the Capital Beltway, 1952-2001
… on previous efforts in cultural geography and material culture studies. Third, I draw on and analyze the dynamics and results of a Web survey. The dissertation provides the first detailed discussion of the Capital Beltway's development and construction in Maryland and Virginia, drawing in part …
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Remembering the revolution: monuments and commemorations of American Revolutionary war sites in New York
… of important events. They present enticing material culture for study by archaeologists seeking to analyze the layers of meaning and the social and chronological transformations in the heritage narratives at military sites. With the prominence of recent national discourses surrounding the …
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