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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Object biography"”.
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Using object biography metadata to create artefact interactions outside memory institutions
… from a typical descriptive catalogue entry to be object biography-centric. This thesis explores this opportunity and presents the creation of novel artefact-centric interactions outside museums embodied by a proof-of-concept mobile application prototype. We performed four studies to acquire object …
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The Role of Amache Family Objects in the Japanese American Internment Experience: Examined Through Object Biography and Object Agency
… with internment through the concepts of object biography and object agency. It uses material culture analysis to help anthropologists understand the Japanese American internment experience, specifically through a case study at Amache, the Japanese American internment camp in southeastern …
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An object Biography of WW2 Pillboxes in Cumbria and Lancashire, and the Defensive Structures of Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France
… This has been done through using the idea of an object biography, which can show the creation, use and possible disuse of an object or architecture. Pillboxes have been surveyed from the counties of Lancashire and Cumbria as well as the Pointe du Hoc site being the only Normandy coast site. By …
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Echoes of Insidious Geographies: The Life History and Object Biography of a Carved Elephant Tusk from the Medieval Mediterranean to the Metropolitan Museum, circa 750 CE to Present
… towards pernicious ends. Using a combination of object biography and life history methodologies, I situate the carved horn, a so-called oliphant, within its early life history in the medieval Mediterranean (ca. 750–1792 CE) and its later, documented object biography including its accession into …
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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
… bias impacts the interpretation of wearer and object biography. This thesis responds to the growing focus on object biography and underrepresented histories in the discipline through examination of the experts charged with analysing, interpreting, and documenting these biographies. Theories are …
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Exploring the Social Lives of Cylinder Seals in Late Cypriot Society
… in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Although these objects appear throughout the Near East and Mesopotamia at the time, their use in Cyprus appears unique. To explore this, cylinder seals are studied according to funerary, sanctuary and settlement types of findspot. Different patterns of social …
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Anchoring the Practice — Contemporary Artists’ Books as Translational Objects
… aims to reconsider the relevance of art’s objecthood and the sense of practice by exploring the case of contemporary artists’ books. What does it mean in today’s art world and economy for practice given art’s practice turn within the post-medium condition to be presented in tangible forms, …
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Coins and colonialism between South Asia and Britain: tracing numismatic networks of collecting from field to museum
… the early to mid-twentieth centuries. Taking an object biography approach, I recount the journey of coins from the ground up to their acquisition to UK museums, as they pass through the hands of agricultural workers, labourers, scavenging communities, collectors, dealers, scholars and museum …
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Handling Bibles in the Nineteenth Century
A bible, as an ink-and-paper object, may be many things: book, commodity, stock-in-trade, devotional space, work surface, recyclable stack of paper, gift, counter-gift, relic, study aid, scaffolded syllabus, unprocessed data, or a notebook. This thesis examines bibles under all these guises—bibles …
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The material politics of houses at Çatalhöyük, 7000–6300 BCE
… dynamics. Houses are rendered as conservative objects, not places of profound change. This thesis adopts a material political approach to houses, considering the way they were assembled through time as a working-out of social alternatives. By approaching prehistoric houses, not as units but as …
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Collecting En Route: An Exploration of the Ethnographic Collection of Gertrude Emily Benham
… of the twentieth century the collecting of objects from colonized countries and their subsequent display in western museums was widespread throughout Western Europe. How and why these collections were made, the processes of collection, and by whom, has only recently begun to be addressed. …
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Objects As Polyagents: Tracing The Histories Of The Gweagal Spears
This paper explores the capacity for objects entangled in complex - and often painful - histories to become constituted of multiple agencies (Gell 1998) through their interaction with various actants in complex and ever-expanding networks of association (Latour 1993; 2005). It does so by analysing …