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Nice little article on a knitting cafe that opened recently in NYC.
Paige West, an anthropologist at the Columbia University, describes people in urban areas as "alienated from the products of their daily work — they never see a material product of their labor."
But knitting helps, she says, allowing the development of a social relationship between objects and people, as well as providing a material byproduct of their efforts.
"People can develop a social relationship with the objects and the people" allowing "some sort of production from which you can see the sensuous item straight away."
Posted by Hilary at February 6, 2004 05:47 PM