TY - JOUR
T1 - (Im)materiality and Practice
T2 - Craft Making as a Medium for Reconstructing Ojibwe Identity in Domestic Spaces
AU - Hadjiyanni, Tasoulla
AU - Helle, Kristin
PY - 2010/3/1
Y1 - 2010/3/1
N2 - Through interviews with thirteen Ojibwe, members of a Native American tribe in Minnesota, this article explores how home-based practices relate to the material and immaterial worlds and how they are impacted by a home's spatiality. Conceiving activities as processes that foster social, spatial, cultural, spiritual, and temporal connections, the analysis elaborates on how activities embedded in the craft making tradition are supported or suppressed by the domestic environment; how they relate, as well as how notions of home, culture, and identity are constructed. We conclude by highlighting culturally sensitive solutions and approaches that ease the tension between (im)materiality and the practical limitations of housing conditions.
AB - Through interviews with thirteen Ojibwe, members of a Native American tribe in Minnesota, this article explores how home-based practices relate to the material and immaterial worlds and how they are impacted by a home's spatiality. Conceiving activities as processes that foster social, spatial, cultural, spiritual, and temporal connections, the analysis elaborates on how activities embedded in the craft making tradition are supported or suppressed by the domestic environment; how they relate, as well as how notions of home, culture, and identity are constructed. We conclude by highlighting culturally sensitive solutions and approaches that ease the tension between (im)materiality and the practical limitations of housing conditions.
KW - Craft making
KW - Culture
KW - Domestic environments
KW - Identity
KW - Meaning
KW - Ojibwe
KW - Practice
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U2 - 10.2752/175174210X12572427063805
DO - 10.2752/175174210X12572427063805
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:77749339867
VL - 7
SP - 57
EP - 84
JO - Home Cultures
JF - Home Cultures
SN - 1740-6315
IS - 1
ER -