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Objects speak with many voices. They can call up stories that can resonate across generations and end up in the corners of kitchens, to be resurrected as a dish of cooking or a place mat. Objects frame memories and also keep them alive (Hurdley, 2013).
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Pahl, K. (2017). Dialogic Objects. In: Pillay, D., Pithouse-Morgan, K., Naicker, I. (eds) Object Medleys. New Research – New Voices. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-194-0_3
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