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Globensky, Anne Birgid. "At Home in Baltimore: An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Lumbee Domestic Material Culture," American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, November 1999.
This dissertation describes and analyzes the interior decorations revealing ways that Native American Lumbee Indians, originally from Robeson County, North Carolina now in Baltimore, Maryland, use mass-produced objects purchased at Home Interior parties, yard sales, and discount stores to “remind them of their people” and manage a controversial and complex cultural identity. While this study analyzes the relationship between people and objects, it is people-centered rather than object-centered. The body of the dissertation is a description of each of the seven households intertwined with aspects of the residents’ life historied revealed through stories told about the objects in their living rooms. When people use objects for reflection, the images provide effective mirrors and catalysts for narrating and evaluating their life stories. The interior decorations of these households point to the various and often simultaneous ways people live between and among different identities and definitions of culture.
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