Connecting Over Distance

Question 1

Why did people gift

Answer 1

Sentimentality
Political advancment
Shared refrence points

Question 2

What did Charles Russell give to James Russell

Answer 2

A Greek lexicon

Question 3

Why was death such a problem

Answer 3

People died very quickly and unexpectedly . Meant hard to access posessionps for memorial purposes

Question 4

Mango fin gifting quote

Answer 4

“Gift giving, gentility, sociability, sentiment, memory and family underpinned British imperial expansion in the later 18thc. And early 19c. India”

Question 5

Mar got Finn identity formation quote

Answer 5

“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”

Question 6

Who was the strawberry their

Answer 6

Harriet Tytler

Question 7

Why did she steal the strawberries

Answer 7

Nostalgia and longing for country that she did not know , pull / draw at home increased her desire to ingest britian

Question 8

Who’s article is about the strawberries

Answer 8

John Poltz

Question 9

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

Answer 9

John Poltz

Question 10

John Poltz Harriet Tytler quote

Answer 10

” 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 “

Question 11

Who’s article is titles ‘on longing’

Answer 11

Susan Stuart

Question 12

What is the purpose of a souvinere

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Who are Jane and Henry russel

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

What’s the point of the Greek lexicon

Answer 14

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

Question 15

What is Margot Finns main argument

Answer 15

That gifting and sentimentality underpinned expansion
It helped to maintain connections
And untie families

Question 16

How did I people connect over distance

Answer 16

Gifting
Letter writing
Travel

Question 17

When did the word nostalgia first come in to use ?

Answer 17

Round 18c. Possibly to do with longing caused by empire

Question 18

Death and possessions contemporary quote

Answer 18

“Here people die one day, are buried the next, their furniture sold in the third and they are forgotten on the fourth” -Lucretia West

Question 19

How did letter communication change

Answer 19

Faster from 18. To 6 months due to improved travel eg. Roads and panel steamers

Question 20

How did letter help connections

Answer 20

Could ask for gifts 
Include family in decision making 
Memorial 
News
Shaper family projects 

Conect family to India

Question 21

What is the one ring

Answer 21

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 .

Question 22

What did nostalgic objects need to be according to Finn

Answer 22

Compact, easily portable full of memories

Question 23

What are the diffrent ways of connecting over distance

Answer 23

Letter writing 
Gifting
Trade 
Keeping up british pursuits 
Visiting 
Building British living spaces

Question 24

Main connecting historians

Answer 24

John Poltz
Margot Finn
Susan Stewart
Marcel Mauss