In 2023, Clare McCabe took a class on American Material Culture. The sampler she created over the course of that class is displayed here. Her…
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My research on American Girl dolls, and the Kaya doll specifically, has been both an exciting and reflective process. Kaya is situated at a crossroad…
Leave a CommentThis week’s readings were all about food and foodways. I enjoyed all the readings, though they left me hungry. Starting off with the Chipstone Foundation’s…
Leave a CommentThis week’s readings explored the variety of ways the built landscape affects everyday lives. From the gendered corporate landscape to eating inside the body…
Leave a CommentThis week’s readings emphasized the long and fraught history of the bathroom. Both Simon and Schultz discuss the racist and unequal history of the public…
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This week, we read a series of articles about commodification. In almost all of the articles (“The Cultural Biography of Things” exempted, although that article…
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My object is the first American Girl Doll that I received, Kaya. (I had originally planned to choose Samantha, another one of my dolls, but…
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This week’s readings on textiles illustrate the complex and sometimes fraught relationship that textile work, specifically embroidery and cross-stitching, have to femininity and concepts of…
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American Material Culture Reading Responses The object I have chosen for study this semester is my Samantha doll, an American girl doll produced by Mattel…
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