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Special Collections & University Archives Annual Report 2010-2011
Title
Special Collections & University Archives Annual Report 2010-2011.
Creator
Thur, Victoria L.
Date Issued
2011
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/SPC_AR2010-2011
Subject Headings
Florida Atlantic University. Libraries
Format
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Gifts from home: Material culture and American immigrant women in the 20th century
Title
Gifts from home: Material culture and American immigrant women in the 20th century.
Creator
Thur, Victoria L., Florida Atlantic University, Norman, Sandra
Abstract/Description
This thesis will explore material culture by focusing on textiles and needlework of American immigrant women in the twentieth-century. It will feature three textiles: the Fishman bris dress from Britain, traditional Ukrainian embroidery, and refugee Hmong story cloths. Material culture is an interdisciplinary field that incorporates a wide variety of sources, theories, and interpretations. Social history incorporates voices and sources that have been disregarded in the mainstream narrative....
Show moreThis thesis will explore material culture by focusing on textiles and needlework of American immigrant women in the twentieth-century. It will feature three textiles: the Fishman bris dress from Britain, traditional Ukrainian embroidery, and refugee Hmong story cloths. Material culture is an interdisciplinary field that incorporates a wide variety of sources, theories, and interpretations. Social history incorporates voices and sources that have been disregarded in the mainstream narrative. Without scholarship in material culture, these sources would be lost forever. Textiles and their study allow for a wider and more inclusive interpretation of the American experience as immigrant and female. Most immigrant women do not hand down traditional primary documents. The everyday object allows historians to pursue historical imagination through material culture. Material culture scholarship and various sub-fields, allow these voices to be included in the canon of the American historical experience.
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Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13402
Subject Headings
Material culture--Semiotic models, Symbolic anthropology, Symbolic interactionism, United States--Emigration and immigration, Women immigrants--United States
Format
Document (PDF)