We watched some slides by photographers who photographed people, their belongings, and sometimes both. The idea was to get a sense of who the person was from their belongings. Here's my purse contents:
Our first assignment was to make a list of all the things in our bedrooms from memory. The second part is to actually make the list. The third part is to swap lists so that another student can draw inferences about us. Whoever gets mine is in for a puzzler :-D Another project is a "personal, reflective essay"..
The textbook for the class is Understanding Material Culture by Ian Woodward. I forked over $63 for a dead tree version. The Kindle versionw as $35...but the Android Kindle app is really finicky and I kind of need my book to be available :-D
This is so cool! A truly fun class! Your purse is pretty tidy ;o) You have to tell us what is in your bedroom, that will be so puzzling! Thanks for changing the comments ;o) Happy New Year :o)
ReplyDeleteThanks :-) It seems like a lot to me, but then I haven't looked at a lot of people's purses. I have a lot of toy horses and bird stuff in the bedroom (the toy horses kind of take over the whole house, eee!) .
ReplyDeleteSounds like a fun class. Glad your enjoying it.
ReplyDeleteYes thank you for changing the comments, much much better. Hate the way Google Plus does it lol
So fun! I have always loved pictures of what's in people's bags. There are photostreams dedicated to this on Flickr.
ReplyDeleteOnce you start looking at these kinds of pictures, it's easy to get hooked, My class is over now, thankfully, but I learned so much that will stay with me for a long time.
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