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Title:
  • Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife annual proceedings. 2016, New England at sea : maritime memory and material culture / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes.
Call No:
  • F1
  • .D82 2019
Summary note:
  • "These essays make us reflect on why certain objects were deemed worthy of preservation at certain moments in time when others were not. The essays also have a great deal to say about the creation and reconfiguration of memories. Curators and collectors, rather than just preserving old artifacts as a timeless slice of the past, have been providing ingredients - ranging from flannel underwear to fine art - for the creation of new cultural forms and new cultural memories. it turns out that immersion in material culture is as much about creation as preservation. That irony is worth savoring as you dive into this thought-provoking collection
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Physical Description:
  • 213 pages :
  • illustrations (some color) ;
  • 23 cm
Notes:
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-202).
  • Introduction / W. Jeffrey Bolster. Section 1 Memory and material culture : Making modern and antimodern maritime memories: Gloucester's fisheries diorama at the 1893 Columbian exposition / W. Jeffrey Bolster -- Preserving, interpreting, and sailing America's icons: USS Constitution and the Charles W. Morgan / Margherita M. Desy -- "Their exploits on the ocean wave ... might still be handed down": the Salem East India Marine Society Museum and Maritime memory / George Schwartz. Section 2 Looking back on technology and maritime economics : Reading the survival "log" of the Polly of Boston / Daniel Finamore -- Traditional nineteenth-century ship design: half-models, mould lofts, and horning poles / Nathan R. Lipfert -- A New England whaler goes slaving / Anthony J. Connors. Section 3 Preserving memory through songs and painting : Huzza for the American Navy: the sea battles of the War of 1812 in song and verse / caroline F. Sloat -- Speed, technology, and adventure in Fitz henry Lane's celebrated ships of the 1840s / Melissa Geisler Trafton. Section 4 The experience of minorities : Black hands, white profits: the critical role black laborers played in Rhode Island's maritime economy, 1750-1800 / Charles R. Foy -- What Frederick Douglass left out: African American maritime workers in New Bedford, 1838 / Len Travers -- Jewish New Bedford and the birth of a maritime antiques trade / Laura A. Miller and Marla R. Miller. Section 5 Maritime clothing : "A complete suit of flannel under-clothing, for bad weather": rediscovering and reproducing Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s Cape Horn wardrobe / Tyler Rudd Putman -- Oilcloth and nippers: outfitting Gloucester fishermen in the late nineteenth century / Laura E. Peluso. Selected bibliography on maritime New England / Peter H. McCracken -- Glossary of maritime terms -- Notes -- Conference program, June 24-26, 2016 -- Abstracts of conference papers not appearing in this volume -- Acknowledgments -- Photograph and illustration credits -- Notes on contributors.
  • "These essays make us reflect on why certain objects were deemed worthy of preservation at certain moments in time when others were not. The essays also have a great deal to say about the creation and reconfiguration of memories. Curators and collectors, rather than just preserving old artifacts as a timeless slice of the past, have been providing ingredients - ranging from flannel underwear to fine art - for the creation of new cultural forms and new cultural memories. it turns out that immersion in material culture is as much about creation as preservation. That irony is worth savoring as you dive into this thought-provoking collection
  • Text in English.
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