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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"object biographies"”.
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To wear and to see: object biographies and the history of mobility in the late nineteenth-century/early twentieth-century Western Indian Ocean
My dissertation aims to determine how the biographies of objects contribute to the history of mobility in the region of the Western Indian Ocean in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century through four case studies of material culture from East Africa that are institutions in the United …
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The Sled, the Litter, and the Plot: Finding Connections Between Mundane Material Culture From World War II's USS North Carolina
… most innocuous papers. Many of the more ordinary objects can help tell stories of war and life to which the visitors can easily connect. This thesis focuses on part of North Carolina's story through the voices of the sailors using three "mundane" artifacts. The object biographies of seemingly …
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'Does it Spark Joy?': KonMari Decluttering in the UK
… theoretical frameworks of material culture, object biographies, and the economics of emotions will be used to contextualise human relationships with the material, and how Kondo’s method may be changing these relationships. Nine female volunteers from KonMari Facebook groups were interviewed …
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Trinkets and Charms: the use, meaning and significance of later medieval and early post-medieval dress accessories
… Britain. It is an investigation of everyday objects which aims to re-engage the material world with past individuals. An interdisciplinary approach is used to understand how dress accessories were often more than ornaments, and how they intersected with and were integral to social, political …
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"A Democracy of Goods": An Archaeology of Commodity Landscapes in Columbia, South Carolina, 1870-1930
… including discourse materialized, hybridity, object mediation, and thick description. By considering, in turn, the same set of archaeologically-recovered objects from three distinct vantage points - consumption, production, and heritage - the Mann-Simons site illuminates how commodity …
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Catching Shadows: The Exhibition of Intangible Heritage of Oceania in Lisa Reihana’s in Pursuit of Venus [infected]
… and the increased prevalence of decolonizing objectives in museums, curators have been faced with the challenge of how to exhibit intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Existing literature on ICH in museums is sparse and that which relates to exhibition technologies like film often focuses on …