Browsing by Subject "Material Culture"
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Barn Raising and the Imagination: Experiencing Life through the Reimagined Barn
(2023-07-17)The mythical historic landscape of Kingsburg, Nova Scotia, Canada becomes a time and place to daydream, as long days spent in the sun end with red skies of sunset. This dream finds an end through a temporal shift to the ... -
CANADA'S MILITARY NURSES IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE BLUEBIRD UNIFORM AND AUTOGRAPH BOOKS AS MATERIAL CULTURE
(2022-08-29)The history of Canada’s First World War military nurses, the “Bluebirds,” has been defined by the appearance of their light blue uniforms. This thesis uses the framework of material culture methodology to examine the ... -
The Collins Farm: Grassland Management, Shepherding, and Textile Production in Nova Scotia, 1767-1829
(2023-07-27)Louisa Collins, the daughter of a farmer living in rural Nova Scotia at the turn of the 19th-century, kept a diary during the summer, fall and winter of 1815 to 1816, which gives a window into the world of pre-industrial, ... -
The Material World of Ñatitas: Personhood in Nonhuman Beings in Urban Bolivia
(2023-08-30)Each November 8, the Fiesta de las Ñatitas is celebrated in homes across La Paz and in the city’s public cemetery. Ñatitas, human skulls that are kept in homes and said to bring good fortune and guidance to their keepers, ... -
Quilting Urban Fabric: Imagining Patchwork Quilting as an Architectural Methodology for Sustainability and Collective Care
(2022-07-28)As a tradition of making that is both material and social, patchwork quilting is a practice of domestic craft with meaningful potential to inform architectural and urban design in the interest of cultural, environmental, ...