The garbage men of NYC are out everyday removing garbage from the streets and transporting it to landfills and waste disposal plants. Rose Nagel use of Marcus (pg7) “even when an object has been abandoned by the […]
Joshua Reno “Your Trash is someone’s Treasure: the Politics of value at a Michigan landfill”
volume 14, issue 1 of the Journal of Material Culture, City of Michigan
(p13) Williams uses the World War I Modernity of the virile male and the threat of the unleased feminine flow posed by industry and shifting gender roles. Women in the workforce post modern was a change that […]
I agree with Reno’s summary of Douglas – current society will view cow-ding as pollution,impure. However Dougkas’ Purity and Danger (9) cow-dung is a cleansing agent. The cow is views as sacred a god, in fact […]
While visiting street fairs and festivals in the City years ago I started collecting African American figurines. In Brooklyn at the African festival and Atlantic Antic I found booths with […]
I started collecting African figurines years ago while going to street fairs in the City. I found booths there that were selling handmade figurines. I brought a lot at the African […]