ENGL 3880 Lecture 20: ENGL 3880 Lecture 20
10 Apr 2018
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Exhibiting and interpreting toys: take home exam. Toy - can use any materials as long as not a single sheet of paper. Burton, design history and history of toys museum of childhood : case study of bgm of childhood - in london. Similar to historic con guration: museum studies. Burton because toys constitute a fairy restricted re of study, toy research soon. Nds . in remote places (12: emphasize ways in which look to other cultures, no universal toys for children to play with, can"t just be historian, need to use other elds in order to unpack them. A defamliliarization - make strange enough that notice it. Brian sutton-smith - have barrier that have to run up against - just passing phase/childhood creations - people think don"t matter but they do. In the case of toys, however, it looks as it it was an interest in their users, children that led to greater study of the used objects (p. 5)
