Keepsake : meanings, practices and tactics of making and preserving memory

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buir.advisorMutlu, Dilek Kaya
dc.contributor.authorSağdıç, Kalben
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-08T18:13:37Z
dc.date.available2016-01-08T18:13:37Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.departmentDepartment of Graphic Designen_US
dc.descriptionAnkara : The Department of Graphic Design and the Institute of Fine Arts of Bilkent University, 2010.en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2010.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references leaves 79-84.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study is an attempt to conceptualize what a “keepsake” is within the context of subjective and social usage in relation to death and mourning. The phenomenon of memory keeping is examined not only as a subjective collation but as an objectifying, inalienable practice during which material qualities and mnemonic value of the keepsake are revealed. Ancestral memorials‟ encoding continuity between and across generations, types of display of a keepsake as well as types of mourning/object keeping, are the focai of the study. A test study aiming to provide an understanding and a basis for more profound researching of keepsake as a social phenomenon is conducted, borrowing methods of ethnography and sociology. The discourse of “object-cathexis” and the “perennial nature of objects” as Zygmunt Bauman argues are discussed in order to analyze human-object relations within the framework of mourning.en_US
dc.description.degreeM.F.A.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilitySağdıç, Kalbenen_US
dc.format.extentx, 84 leaves, illustrationsen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/15107
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherBilkent Universityen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectKeepsakeen_US
dc.subjectinalienabilityen_US
dc.subject(un)mourningen_US
dc.subjectmemoryen_US
dc.subjectbiography of objectsen_US
dc.subjecttactilityen_US
dc.subject.lccGT3390 .S34 2010en_US
dc.subject.lcshDeath--Social aspects.en_US
dc.subject.lcshMourning customs.en_US
dc.subject.lcshPersonal belongings--Psychological aspects.en_US
dc.subject.lcshSouvenirs (Keepsake)--Psychological aspects.en_US
dc.subject.lcshMemorials.en_US
dc.subject.lcshMaterial culture.en_US
dc.titleKeepsake : meanings, practices and tactics of making and preserving memoryen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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