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Hodgson's diary of her journeys through the flea markets of Europe, North Africa and North America guides readers down back alleys and into musty shops. We flank Hodgson as she gently fingers trinkets and seashells, sifts through distressed maps, stacks and unstacks slides and expired passports, all the while conversationally remarking on what this detritus represents - or could represent, given the right context and a bit of back story. c2007.
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Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics, and our culture, even though a growing body of research suggests it may be well past its sell-by date. In Consumerism and the Limits to Imagination, media scholar Justin Lewis makes a compelling case that consumer capitalism can no longer deliver on its promise of enhancing quality of life, and argues that changing direction will require changing our media system and our cultural environment....
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This powerful documentary was made by Oomera (Coral) Edwards on Super 8mm film as a training exercise at the (then) Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra. The film surveys the New South Wales policy of taking Aboriginal children from their families and putting them in institutions run by the Aborigines Welfare Board. From 1883 to 1969, this policy deprived generations of children of their Aboriginal identity. Oomera was one of these...
5) Winter
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Four seasons encyclopedia volume 2
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Written to introduce his youngest daughter to the wonders of life, Winter is the continuation of Karl Ove Knausgaard's personal encyclopedia and record of the world that will soon make up the close reality of his yet unborn child.
7) Autumn
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Four seasons encyclopedia volume 1
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The author writes numerous letters and short pieces to his unborn daughter describing the material and natural world she will soon be born into.
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Joseph Pearson, a Canadian historian and author, spoke to elderly family members, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances asking them the same question: Is there an item that tells your wartime story? He also asked the question in reverse: Could he find out the Second World War story of a deceased person through an object they owned? In this way he shed light on the history of the twentieth century by bringing to life the stories of everyday objects...
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Agnes Abbott was born at Loves Creek Station in the 1930s. She lived in the bush with her Eastern Arrernte family, travelling across the parts of her homeland which are still accessible to the old people. From her early years born and raised in the bush, learning the survival tools and the ways of their culture, Agnes' life underwent many and expansive changes. More of her homelands became inaccessible to families for hunting, and finding new ways...
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