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Some of our strongest, most lasting relationships are hidden in plain view-those we have with objects. What do our possessions do for us? And how do they do it? In The Promise of Things, Ruth Quibell explores what our possessions say about us- who we think we are, what we long for and struggle against. It invites us to think about how we use things, what makes them precious, and why we find it so hard to throw these objects away.

Personal belongings --- Transitional objects (Psychology) --- Attachment behavior. --- Psychological aspects. --- Attachment objects (Psychology) --- Objects, Transitional (Psychology) --- Solacing objects (Psychology) --- Transitional phenomena (Psychology) --- Psychology --- Attachment behavior --- Belongings, Personal --- Bundles of personal belongings --- Effects, Personal --- Paraphernalia, Personal --- Personal effects --- Personal paraphernalia --- Personal possessions --- Possessions, Personal --- Behavior, Attachment --- Developmental psychology --- Love

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Abu-Ghazaleh focuses on Palestinian cultural material artifacts and their connection with the preservation of cultural identity. The Palestinian participants were acutely aware of the potential instability of their diaspora, especially in the United States since 9/11. This study provides a perspective not generally presented in Western media of the Palestinian people striving for the peaceful preservation of their nationality through their cultural artifacts, and social identity practices. For Palestinians, material culture artifacts connect them to their homeland even as it is relentlessly re

Palestinian Americans --- Immigrants --- Ethnicity --- Material culture --- Personal belongings --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Palestinian Arab Americans --- Ethnology --- Palestinian Arabs --- Belongings, Personal --- Bundles of personal belongings --- Effects, Personal --- Paraphernalia, Personal --- Personal effects --- Personal paraphernalia --- Personal possessions --- Possessions, Personal --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Ethnic identity. --- Social life and customs. --- Maryland --- US-MD --- MD --- Ethnic relations.

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"Looking closely at the meanings--literal and figurative--of the complex relationship of medieval women to material possessions. The essays gathered in this volume present multifaceted considerations of the intersection of objects and gender within the cultural contexts of late medieval France and England. Some take a material view of objects, showing buildings, books, and pictures as sites of gender negotiation and resistance and as extensions of women's bodies. Others reconsider the concept of objectification in the lives of fictional and historical medieval women by looking closely at their relation to gendered material objects, taken literally as women's possessions and as figurative manifestations of their desires. The opening section looks at how medieval authors imagined fictional and legendary women using particular objects in ways that reinforce or challenge gender roles. These women bring objects into the orbit of gender identity, employing and relating to them in a literal sense, while also taking advantage of their symbolic meanings. The second section focuses on the use of texts both as objects in their own right and as mechanisms by which other objects are defined. The possessors of objects in these essays lived in the world, their lives documented by historical records, yet like their fictional and legendary counterparts, they too used objects for instrumental ends and with symbolic resonances. The final section considers the objectification of medieval women's bodies as well as its limits. While this at times seems to allow for a trade in women, authorial attempts to give definitive shapes and boundaries to women's bodies either complicate the gender boundaries they try to contain or reduce gender to an ideological abstraction. This volume contributes to the ongoing effort to calibrate female agency in the late Middle Ages, honoring the groundbreaking work of Carolyn P. Collette" --

Women --- Sex role --- Personal belongings --- Material culture --- Literature, Medieval --- History --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Belongings, Personal --- Bundles of personal belongings --- Effects, Personal --- Paraphernalia, Personal --- Personal effects --- Personal paraphernalia --- Personal possessions --- Possessions, Personal --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- Middle Ages --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medievalism --- Renaissance --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles

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The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon Schechter attends to a diverse array of things-from spoons to tanks-to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated soldiers from civilians.Through a fascinating examination of leaflets, proclamations, newspapers, manuals, letters to and from the front, diaries, and interviews, The Stuff of Soldiers reveals how the use of everyday items made it possible to wage war. The dazzling range of documents showcases ethnic diversity, women's particular problems at the front, and vivid descriptions of violence and looting.Each chapter features a series of related objects: weapons, uniforms, rations, and even the knick-knacks in a soldier's rucksack. These objects narrate the experience of people at war, illuminating the changes taking place in Soviet society over the course of the most destructive conflict in recorded history. Schechter argues that spoons, shovels, belts, and watches held as much meaning to the waging of war as guns and tanks. In The Stuff of Soldiers, he describes the transformative potential of material things to create a modern culture, citizen, and soldier during World War II.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Soldiers --- Military paraphernalia --- Material culture --- Personal belongings --- Belongings, Personal --- Bundles of personal belongings --- Effects, Personal --- Paraphernalia, Personal --- Personal effects --- Personal paraphernalia --- Personal possessions --- Possessions, Personal --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Paraphernalia, Military --- Military supplies --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Armed Forces --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Equipment and supplies. --- Social conditions. --- Paraphernalia --- Soviet Union. --- Military life. --- Equipment. --- History --- Red Army, World War II, Material Culture, Stalinism, Great Patriotic War.