Maternal heritage: remembering mothering and motherhood through material culture

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New motherhood is mediated through the material world. In this liminal, vulnerable period of matrescence, consumption and interaction with objects co- constitutes mother her child. Material culture central to motherhood, as mothers negotiate preparation, mastery memorialisation their maternal role objects. While some are used once then discarded, other saved for longer periods, either by individuals within private collections or curators in cultural institutions. preserving certain aspects which interact, a form heritage created inescapably partial. This article examines ways mothers, mothering preserved memorialised public collections. It analyses institutions alongside personal archives, drawing out synchronies divergences between them well has changed since mid-twentieth century. concludes discussing constituted institutional archiving makes possible history while obscuring others.

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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Heritage Studies

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1352-7258', '1470-3610']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2021.1893792