Vasileva E.A. —
Souvenir Doll in Collections of St. Petersburg Museum of Dolls
// Culture and Art. – 2017. – ¹ 5.
– P. 68 - 77.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0625.2017.5.19447
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/camag/article_19447.html
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Abstract: The object of the research is the souvenir doll and varous kinds of souvenir doll as the product of globalisation and actively developing world and domestic tourism in terms of Russian cultur of the 20th - 21st centuries. Items especially made to be sold to travellers as a memory appeared in the Middle Ages as a result of piligrim's journeys and are now gaining in popularity, new features and functions such as creating memories about a place, event or individual, company's brand or image making through invention of trademark 'trifles' to be presented to clients, partners, etc. Doll has a significant representative potential compared to other crafts. It is also actively used in education, museum studies and other spheres. Therefore, the author of the present article views doll as a special category of souvenirs and studies it based on a wide material collected by St. Petersburg Museum of Dolls. The main research methods used by Vasilieva in her research include: culturological, comparative historical analysis used to desribe the process of developing various kinds of souvenir dolls a well as typological analysis. By using the cultural research approach, the author has described the technological process of creating traditional St. Petersburg souvenir dolls. Moreover, the latter are viewed from the point of view of marketing. The rationale of the research is obvious providing that souvenir production is an understudied phenomenon that has much potential for further development. The academic community does not offer a clear definition of souvenir doll. It is usually either associated with other kinds of human figures or not taken into account at all. The author of the present article pays attention to extraordinary external, historical and functional features of these figurines and offers their classification.