Arthur Ingram and Lionel Cranfield were part of the early modern phenomenon of social mobility, rising from humble merchants to titled gentlemen in one generation. Cranfield, especially, reached significant heights in a matter of years. Despite the fact both men have merited bio…
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This thesis examines the materiality and practice of West African indigenous/'traditional' medicine through an archaeological ethnographic study engaging with contemporary healing specialists in a migrant community of Accra, Ghana. It makes an original contribution to knowledge …
Research into the material culture of the household and the domestic interior has increased rapidly during recent years. It has primarily focused on the appearance and use of domestic space leaving household management and maintenance a neglected area of study. Furthermore the r…
As an academic discipline, the earth sciences generate, use, and retain vast quantities of objects. This ‘material archive’ exists, first and foremost, as a functional scientific resource; the objects that it contains were never intended to express culture. Since the earth scien…
This dissertation highlights the experiences of three Friulian women alive in the first half of the sixteenth-century who negotiated complex issues around property, rights, and law generated out of conflicts in or around their marriages. In examining moments of transition and co…
The 1921 “Exhibición de Arte Popular” established the category of arte popular in Mexico. The exhibition required that all works be made from materials originating in the country of Mexico and created through “authentic” Indigenous traditions. In other words, the focus was on cr…
The Late Bronze Age in Britain (c. 1250–750 BC) was a period of economic and social reorganisation: agricultural and settlement patterns; funerary and depositional practices - all saw significant change and development. This thesis examines the evidence for the occupation and en…
The 1778 Meschianza of Philadelphia lived large in the nineteenth-century historical memory of the American Revolution. All but faded from our cultural memory today, the then-famous eighteen-hour regatta, theatrical performance, and fancy-dress ball came to represent the materia…
This dissertation argues that book display significantly modifies Robert Darnton’s theory on the communications circuit and life cycle of the book. Antebellum American bookcases conveyed social, cultural, and symbolic capital that not only characterized shared aspirations, but a…
This dissertation explores the assertions that changes in form, function, practice, and perceptions of puha primarily arose from the dispossession of landscapes and oppression of specific religious practices due to Euro-American contact, resource depletion, and reservation confi…
In 2014, Howard Fried inventoried his deceased mother’s wardrobe in anticipation of exchanging its contents with a group of strangers. In 2001, John D. Freyer sold over all of his personal possessions on eBay and used these sales as the starting point for social exchanges with t…
The Moravian town of Bethlehem went through a series of developmental changes between 1740-1745 that saw the community go from a closed-form of church-controlled communalism to an entirely open society. This change was precipitated by the outside world’s direct influence on the …
At the turn of the eighteenth century, a polychrome revolution swept over Qing court arts, which saw the number of enamel colors to be applied over a porcelain surface increasing from fewer than ten, to a virtually unlimited amount. Previous research has attributed this phenomen…
The dissertation, titled “Take Care and Venerate”: Morenita, Excessive Personhood, and Devotedness in a Puerto Rican Family, explores one question: how religious objects are theological. Using the historical polemics around images (such as idolatry and iconoclasm), scholarship o…
This thesis examines the textile work and related fashion ephemera and attitudes of rural women in the United States in the first half of the 20th century. It considers rural women from the 1920s through the 1950s and examines their lives and their relationship with textiles and…
Through a design historical approach at a micro level, this thesis traced the global circulation of a collection of eighteenth-century Portuguese tilework and its re-contextualization in a new diplomatic terrain; the American embassy grounds in Lisbon, Portugal, built between 19…
Problem: As a qualitative methodology, narrative inquiry (Connelly & Clandinin, 2006) is needed to draw storied data from participants representing experiences in all facets of education. Collecting experiential data essential to making comparisons and identifying variations (St…
Temperature was invented in the 17th century. While cosmologists affirm that fluctuations in heat are as old as the universe, the intensive quantified scale marking these fluctuations has a relatively short history. This dissertation analyzes why temperature developed when it di…
This dissertation asks how and why Americans came to believe that the experience of wartime combat is impossible to imagine, so that only combat veterans can understand “what it is like.” How did this become the primary way Americans think about combat today? For early Americans…