Contextualising collections

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Sunday, January 5, 2014

collecting a list of political parties that have opened and shut in South

Asian countries in the last fifty years. Anyone care to point me to any sites you know on this? Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

The barns and their contents and context

The barns and their content The content and their context The storage style n their context The context and the class The class and the caste context About what? The barns and their content Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Connect the collection to the times it was collected in and to the

situation and circumstances under which it was collected and our understandings of the collection become that much clearer. What say? It gives us a sense about the collector items as well as the collector. Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Collecting Christmas buntings with themes

I do know that cribs have themes which focus on any one dimension. But have you come across Christmas buntings which are innovative and which try to get across the message of Christmas in the context of today's times. I sure would be interested to collect pictures of such buntings. Perhaps some... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Who can afford certain types of collections?

Who can afford certain types of collections? How can certain persons afford certain collections? That's the question also being asked in the item pasted below. But like all posts at election time, this one also raises doubts/ Surely if he has a collection like this, it's been known all along? Why... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

You collect matchsticks but...

You collect matchsticks of diffferent sorts Today many of them speak of an era; but I can't collect cos I have scent and eau de cologne and fuel for my firewood all over the place and it's risky Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, November 16, 2012

I collect stamps and coins but you can't...

I collect stamps and coins But you can't collect them because you know no one abroad, you know no one who can share stamps or coins with you and you ain't got the money to buy 'em Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, November 5, 2012

Landscaping with the collection of pebbles ...

My cousin does landscaping of the vast property around her house, with the assorted pebbles that she collects along life's journey be it within our country or abroad, and what a fascinating kaleidoscope it turns out to be! But of course, this is a luxury that only someone with lots of land can... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Collecting dust...now this is offbeat...

It's not about collecting dust. It's about collections collecting dust. When does that happen? When people are careless with their collections...when the area where the collection is kept is dust-prone....when people don't have the possibilities of dusting because of their schedules....when someone... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Amazed by variety...

Talking of collections, I am amazed by the variety of things people collect, and I am also amazed by the variety of collections within each theme or item. People collect things ranging from matchsticks to cars. And within collections, a literary collection may be all about collecting translated... Sign in to see full entry.

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