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- Title
The Preservation of Handicrafts in the Southern Highlands: Northern Philanthropy and Social Idealists.
- Authors
White, John Howell
- Abstract
During the first half of the twentieth century, the surplus wealth of American industrialists was redistributed through a newly invented legal instrument, the philanthropic foundation. The Russell Sage Foundation was dedicated to using social science as an instrument to improve the living conditions of American culture. Handicrafts were aligned with the social sciences as tools for social intervention. Their therapeutic value rested in their ability to reconnect people with everyday life, cultural traditions, and bodily knowledge. John C. Campbell, Olive D. Campbell, and Allen Eaton were each funded by the Russell Sage Foundation to develop surveys of the cultural conditions of the Southern Highlands. This region was imaged as both needy and exotic. Despite the limits that their own idealism placed upon their work as effective instruments for social change, they succeeded in providing both lasting records of the region's material culture, The Southern Highlander and his homeland and Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands, and experiments in cooperative activity, The John C. Campbell Folk School.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TANZANIA; CHARITABLE uses, trusts, &; foundations; SOCIAL sciences; HANDICRAFT; MATERIAL culture; SOUTHERN Highlands (Tanzania)
- Publication
Visual Arts Research, 2004, Vol 29, Issue 58, p44
- ISSN
0736-0770
- Publication type
Article