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Patina (Paperback)
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Patina (Paperback)
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When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the world reacted with
shock on seeing residents of this distinctive city left abandoned
to the floodwaters. After the last rescue was completed, a new
worry arose--that New Orleans's unique historic fabric sat in
ruins, and we had lost one of the most charming old cities of the
New World. In Patina, anthropologist Shannon Lee Dawdy examines
what was lost and found through the destruction of Hurricane
Katrina. Tracking the rich history and unique physicality of New
Orleans, she explains how it came to adopt the nickname "the
antique city." With innovative applications of thing theory, Patina
studies the influence of specific items--such as souvenirs,
heirlooms, and Hurricane Katrina ruins--to explore how the city's
residents use material objects to comprehend time, history, and
their connection to one another. A leading figure in archaeology of
the contemporary, Dawdy draws on material evidence, archival and
literary texts, and dozens of post-Katrina interviews to explore
how the patina aesthetic informs a trenchant political critique. An
intriguing study of the power of everyday objects, Patina
demonstrates how sharing in the care of a historic landscape can
unite a city's population--despite extreme divisions of class and
race--and inspire civil camaraderie based on a nostalgia that
offers not a return to the past but an alternative future.
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