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Living in a material world: object biography and transnational lives
- Author(s):
- Karen Schamberger (see profile) , Martha Sear, Kirsten Wehner, Jennifer Wilson
- Date:
- 2008
- Group(s):
- History, Museums
- Subject(s):
- Transnationalism, Historiography, Australia, History, Australia, Area studies, Material culture
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Museology, Transnational history, Australian history, Australian studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6930NT7Z
- Abstract:
- Personal and object biographies can be interwoven and reveal much about the transnational connections between Australia and other places. This chapter features two interwoven biographies: Guna Kinne, a Latvian Displaced Person who began making a national dress as a school girl in Latvia and continued to make it as she fled the Soviet army to Germany during World War II; and Minh Tam Nguyen who made a musical instrument, the dàn tre, in a Vietcong reeducation camp, then made a second one in a refugee camp. Both Kinne and Nguyen brought their objects to Australia and continued to use them, eventually donating them to the National Museum of Australia.
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- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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