Connecting Over Distance Flashcards
Why did people gift
Sentimentality
Political advancment
Shared refrence points
What did Charles Russell give to James Russell
A Greek lexicon
Why was death such a problem
People died very quickly and unexpectedly . Meant hard to access posessionps for memorial purposes
Mango fin gifting quote
“Gift giving, gentility, sociability, sentiment, memory and family underpinned British imperial expansion in the later 18thc. And early 19c. India”
Mar got Finn identity formation quote
“Capable of collapsing space and time the gift relation proved an essential instrument of colonial identity formation in British India throughout the period of company rule”
Who was the strawberry their
Harriet Tytler
Why did she steal the strawberries
Nostalgia and longing for country that she did not know , pull / draw at home increased her desire to ingest britian
Who’s article is about the strawberries
John Poltz
Who argues that objects and cultural practices became vehicles and repositories of mobile memory of Victorian britian in India? They helped to construct british identity even when in diffrent country
John Poltz
John Poltz Harriet Tytler quote
” born in a land she cannot conceive as her own and raised to idolise a country she knows only through words, pictures and stories, Tytler cannot resist the chance to ingest England “
Who’s article is titles ‘on longing’
Susan Stuart
What is the purpose of a souvinere
It represents and authenticates a past experience
The nostalgia of the souvinere plays in the distance between the present and the imagined idealised past experience
Who are Jane and Henry russel
Married in 1809 .. Jane died, yet through sentimental gifting practices Henry managed to bring tow family’s closer together like their marriage would have done, thus advancing his own career.
What’s the point of the Greek lexicon
Charles to James russel . Allowed them to connect years after leaving India,… In 1851 met up in London and later with be o sir Henry in Berkshire
What is Margot Finns main argument
That gifting and sentimentality underpinned expansion
It helped to maintain connections
And untie families
How did I people connect over distance
Gifting
Letter writing
Travel
When did the word nostalgia first come in to use ?
Round 18c. Possibly to do with longing caused by empire
Death and possessions contemporary quote
“Here people die one day, are buried the next, their furniture sold in the third and they are forgotten on the fourth” -Lucretia West
How did letter communication change
Faster from 18. To 6 months due to improved travel eg. Roads and panel steamers
How did letter help connections
Could ask for gifts Include family in decision making Memorial News Shaper family projects
Conect family to India
What is the one ring
Bloke John Elliot died on way home to GB although hair had Beene taken not good enough to do anything with . Save possession of ring. Ring already filled with sentimentality . Wishing it woven hair if Henry rise,d deceased wife Jane .
What did nostalgic objects need to be according to Finn
Compact, easily portable full of memories
What are the diffrent ways of connecting over distance
Letter writing Gifting Trade Keeping up british pursuits Visiting Building British living spaces
Main connecting historians
John Poltz
Margot Finn
Susan Stewart
Marcel Mauss
