UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
HIS1543Y
TOPICS IN MATERIAL CULTURE
2002/2003

FINAL RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT

 

Each project below represents original research that began with the selection of an object, a systematic analysis of that object based on published methodologies that generated research questions (see the first term assignments) and the final interpretations presented here. Click on the image or title to explore the interesting ways objects can inform our understanding of the past and present.

 

 

Ariel Beaujot

Material Culture and the Vanity-Set Hairbrush: 1890-1940


Yi-an Chen

Modern, Taboo, and Menstrual Products


Victoria De Luca

The Material Culture of Umbrellas


Susan Lamb

An Analysis of Anatomy Models from the Eighteenth, Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries

Joan Lee

Material Culture of the Chinese Commercial Posters


Karen Linauskus

The Life of a Book & Books in a Life: Using Material Culture to Better Understand the Relationships Between People and Their Books


Aron Mohr

To the Pointe: Pointe Shoes and the Spectacle of Femininity


Catherine Ponte

Front Yard Devotions: Religious Material Culture in Downtown Toronto


Elena Strong

Interpreting the Urban Landscape Past, Present and Future - A Material Culture Study of Downtown Toronto