Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 20 (06) 1967

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The object of fashion : methodological approaches to the history of fashion

This essay considers the role of artefacts in the historical study of dress and fashion and suggests the existence of three different approaches. The field of history of dress and costume has a long tradition going back to the nineteenth century. It adopts the methodologies of art history and considers artefacts as central to the analysis of different periods and themes. In the last few decades the emergence of fashion studies has been interpreted as a distancing from artefacts. It is here claimed that fashion studies brought theoretical rigour and embraced a deductive methodology of analysis in which artefacts still played an important function. The final part of this essay introduces the reader to what I call the material culture of fashion, a hybrid methodology borrowed from anthropology and archeology in which the object is central in the study of social, cultural and economic practices that are time specific. It shows in particular the challenges and paybacks of such an approach

Religious education in the experience of young people from mixed-faith families

On the basis of recent ethnographic study at the University of Warwick of the religious identity formation of young people in ‘mixed-faith’ families, this article focuses on their (and their parents’) experiences and perceptions of religious education (RE) and of religious nurture in the community. The young people’s experience of RE differed between primary and secondary school and only a few were engaged in supplementary classes. We highlight the complementarity between school and home in young people’s religious learning and draw out implications for RE

The Cowl - v.26 - n.1 - Jan 24, 1973

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 26, Number 1 - January 24, 1973. 4 pages. Note: The volume number printed on the banner page of this issue (XXVI) duplicates the volume number for 1963-64 academic year

Reminiscences of East Greenwich

Address delivered before the East Greenwich Business Men’s Association by Henry E. Turner, April 11, 1892. Henry E. Turner, a member of the East Greenwich Business Men’s Association, recounts the early history of notable events and people of the town of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, during the first half of the 19thcentury.https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/ri_history/1005/thumbnail.jp

The Cowl - v.51 - n.17 - Apr 2, 1987

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 51 - No. 17 - April 2, 1987. 20 pages

The Cowl - v.13 - n.17 - Mar 6, 1951

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 13, Number 17- Mar 6, 1951. 4 pages