You Study Dolls, But Do You Collect Them?
Anthropologist and doll collector Dr. Erick DuPree explores a lifelong love of dolls, from Barbie and Bob Mackie to Gene Marshall and vintage Cissy. A personal essay on collecting, beauty, shame, memory, masculinity, and reclaiming the things that helped us survive.
- memory
- takara dolls
- dolls and identity
- barbie doll
- earring magic ken
- folk dolls
- japanese fashion dolls
- collecting
- research
- gay billy doll
- jem
- archetypes
- dolls beyond play
- Gene Marshall Doll
- exhibit
- fashion doll history
- psychology of dolls
- americana
- kinship
- fashion dolls
- anthropology of doll
- deux ll doll
- ethnography of dolls
- Cissy
- Madame Alexander
- museum
- antique dolls
- queer history
- Mel Odom
- lady luminous