15 Aug Family history
Employing the assistance of a family member of a generation above you and one chosen by placing all eligible names in a hat and then having someone other than yourself the name,
the task here is to write about the object chosen by the selected person and one that holds some type of significance in your family. Here you are to write a historical and cultural analysis of the object that employs the methodologies of material culture. Your task is as much to talk about the object under study as to discuss the broader issues of the meaning and significance of things in human life. To these ends, you must consider the origin and context of production of the object, its materiality, its function and its appearance. You should also attempt to make sense out of its status or how and why it became a significant and revered possession. Obviously, there may well be a disjunction between economic and emotional worth. The essay must be 1000 words in length (exactly) and a bibliography must be attached.
