Folk Dolls and the Stories They Hold: Ethnography, Oral History, and Material Memory
Folk dolls carry more than cloth, clay, wood, or thread; they carry memory. Passed through generations and preserved in homes, markets, and family collections, these handmade figures function as vessels of oral history and cultural continuity.
- 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