Genteel Women: Empire and domestic material culture, 1840–1910 by Dianne Lawrence

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esme Cleall
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Domestic Material Culture

Model Worlds

2019 ◽  
pp. 250-330
Author(s):  
Caitlín Eilís Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Interactive Model ◽  
Domestic Material Culture ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Domestic Cult

Expanding current constructions of Nilotica, chapter 6 examines the creation of three-dimensional “Egyptian” landscapes through garden statuary and water features at the Casa di Acceptus e Euhodia. Sidestepping unproductive debates about whether garden statuary signified “religion” or “Egyptomania,” this case study shows how “Egyptianizing” statuary collaborated with the garden’s other contents to create an interactive model landscape. Some evidence from this house suggests that its inhabitants may have directed a domestic cult toward a form of Isis. However, this chapter argues that such practices should not overdetermine our understanding of the garden assemblage. Rather than a binary divide between “Isiacs” and “non-Isiacs,” evidence suggests a broad spectrum of available religious choices. Furthermore, domestic material culture does not correspond to religious identity in a simple or straightforward way. Regardless of their relationship (or lack thereof) to Egyptian-derived cults, most Pompeians appear to have employed domestic Aegyptiaca and Nilotica in fairly similar ways.

Bolts of Cloth and Sherds of Pottery: Impressions of Caste in the Material Culture of the Seventeenth Century Audiencia of Quito

2004 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross W. Jamieson
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Complex Mixture ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Domestic Material Culture ◽  
Spanish Colonies ◽  
Bodies Of Evidence ◽  
Excellent Source

People use domestic material culture to create an image of themselves that they project to others who live in, or visit, their homes. This was as true in the Spanish colonial city as it is in any city today. If, therefore, we wish to investigate status and ethnicity in the Spanish colonies, domestic material culture is an excellent source of information on how people imagined their own place, and that of others, in society. The first step toward this is the reconstruction of the material culture of urban colonial houses. There are two main bodies of evidence available to accomplish this. The first is descriptions of household goods in the notarial archives of the colonies, and the second is the physical remains of household refuse found in archaeological contexts in cities. Each body of evidence can make unique contributions to our understanding of social relations in the colonial city, but each also has unique limitations. I use the interplay between colonial notarial documents and archaeological remains to help define the role of material culture in the study of caste relations in Cuenca, Ecuador. The Spanish colonial régimen de castas was a system that categorized people by caste, using a complex mixture of legal status, ethnicity, racial (or physical) categorization, and economic roles.

Training Children for Work in the Nineteenth Century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicky Crewe
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Western World ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Decorative Motifs ◽  
Domestic Material Culture ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Different Parts

Material culture in Victorian working-class homes acted as a medium through which messages about the importance of industry, diligence, and obedience could be emphasized to children. This chapter will review the ways in which material culture scholars have approached the subject of child labour in different areas of the Victorian world, as well as elucidating the differences and similarities in children’s experiences of work in different parts of the western world during the nineteenth century. It will consider decorative motifs on mass-produced domestic material culture, the role of toys as objects for training children, and work-related artefacts with which children may have interacted, but which do not bear obvious characteristics suggesting that they were specifically made for children. Labour will be addressed in its broadest sense, including gendered differences in the material culture of labour and the broader historical driving forces behind the existence of work-related material ‘propaganda’.

Conclusions

2019 ◽  
pp. 331-352
Author(s):  
Caitlín Eilís Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Roman Art ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Domestic Material Culture ◽  
Hadrian’S Villa ◽  
Hadrian's Villa ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 7 synthesizes the major conclusions of the book. As an examination of the Egyptian themes at Hadrian’s villa in Tivoli demonstrates, these conclusions are significant not only for Pompeii in 79 CE but also for Roman visual culture more broadly. Issues considered include the use of household material culture to literally “domesticate” ideologies of empire; the relationship between “Egyptianizing” and “Classicizing” forms of Roman art; a comparison of display strategies in “elite” and “non-elite” houses; the relationship between religious identity and material culture; conceptions of order versus chaos in Roman gardens; and the agency of domestic material culture in shaping everyday practices and experiences. The garden assemblages in this book present the Pompeian house not only as a microcosm of empire but also as a workshop where individuals could work out through practice what it actually meant to live in a changing, profoundly interconnected, and increasingly interdependent world.

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