Blog One
Prompt One: My cultural artifact is a purse. I chose this because I always carried a purse similar to this one even though I was only six with no business having or needing one. It was filled with snacks and cheap play makeup that target sells to little girls that want to play makeover with. I was compelled to choose my childhood purse because it was something I adopted from watching grown women. They always carried purses around and wore makeup so I felt that I also needed to. It was something that I picked up as a young girl about women. Whenever I would go to the mall I observed hundreds of women because a little girl has nothing better to do than to look around. The one thing most of them had in common was a purse so there I was, a six year old that now needed a purse. Prompt Two: The social world in which my object, the purse, exists and acts is on a day to day life of most women. The creators of the cultural object is the fashion industry. They are al