Charting material memories : an ethnography of visual and material transformations of woollen blankets in Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the United States

Taking one thing—the industrially produced woollen blanket—as an object of investigation, this thesis sets out to bring together a study of aesthetics, materiality, and locality in relation to the woollen blanket to consider it as a possible “technology of enchantment” (Gell 1998) in both its origin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDonald, F. P.
Other Authors: Kuechler, S. ; Pinney, C.
Published: University College London (University of London) 2014
Subjects:
301
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.632037