124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Unfamiliar and Faraway: The Material Culture of Children’s Education about Foreign Places

Unfamiliar and Faraway: The Material Culture of Children’s Education about Foreign Places

AHA Session 147

Saturday, January 9, 2010: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM

Manchester Ballroom B (Hyatt)

Chair:

Annette Stott, University of Denver

Papers:

The Foreign Qualities of Objects: “Object Lessons” and the Creation of a Material Geography
Sarah Anne Carter, Harvard University

Representations of the National and the Foreign in Material and Visual Culture of Mexican Children's Textbooks: The Lecciones de Cosas
Víctor M. Macias-Gonzalez, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Friends From Foreign Lands, or Doll Diplomacy: Learning How to Get Along with International Dolls
Sarah Zenaida Gould, University of Michigan

Comment:

Steven Mintz, Columbia University

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