Ethnography Project: Bergen St in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
For the site of my ethnography project I chose the Brooklyn neighborhood of Cobble Hill, specifically the block of Bergen St between Smith and Court streets, an...
For the site of my ethnography project I chose the Brooklyn neighborhood of Cobble Hill, specifically the block of Bergen St between Smith and Court streets, an...
As a Modern Orthodox Jew, my relationships with both the secular and religious worlds are complicated to say the least. These complications apply to every aspec...
Rayon? Maybe silk? Perhaps it was polyester. Sleeveless, white, transparent. White buttons up the front, the collar had slightly extended tips, a bit of a seven...
While reading Umberto Eco’s Lumbar Thought, I immediately thought of my leather jacket. This jacket is an item that constantly (almost hauntingly) reminds me of...
Alabama Chanin sought to understand a symbol when she undertook the painstaking task of deconstructing a t-shirt, seam by seam, just to hand sew it back togethe...
A large white tent, a simple folding table, two wire containers, fitted with large white plastic bags, a sign, mounds of plastic bags, a scattered pile of flyer...
I wrote the essay “T-Shirt” for our class’s (MALS 71200 / IDS 82000) second essay. In it, I discuss cotton manufacturing, clothing designer Mary Ping, and...
I wrote the essay “Tie Rack” to put Stallybrass and Eco in conversation with one another for our class’s (MALS 71200 / IDS 82000) first essay....
French philosopher Albert Camus said, “Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authen...
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