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  1. State of the Field: Material Culture

    The study of material culture – the myriad layers of cultural meaning embedded within objects – has been adopted by historians from colleagues in anthropology, archaeology and museum …

  2. Material culture, context and meaning : a critical investigation of ...

    The broad theoretical concern of the thesis is to elucidate the relationship between material culture and social relations, and to counter the analytical separation of cultural form and social …

  3. Cultural Objects, Material Culture, and Materiality

    First, it advocates attention to qualities in addition to symbols. Then it examines how object affordances constrain and enable meaning and use and how objects have material agency. …

  4. [PDF] Understanding Material Culture

    Origins and Premises PART TWO: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO STUDYING MATERIAL CULTURE The Deceptive, Suspicious Object. Marxist and Critical Approaches The Object as …

  5. Materiality and the urban:recent theses in archaeology and …

    wider position of institutions in the urban and rural landscape, and their position in the social space of the historical city. Charlotte Newman’s 2010 dissertation on the archaeology of work …

  6. Material Culture and Technological Determinism

    from material culture. I argue for this thesis through a consideration of the merits of Pre-ston’s theory of material culture. Her sociogeneric approach attributes human cognitive agency to a …

  7. Studio 12: Material Culture and Transcultural Exchanges …

    Wessie Ling, Dissertation Studio 12 is concerned with the increasing complexity of the material and symbolic flows of fashion, textile, artefact and commodity.

  8. Journal of Material Culture: Sage Journals

    The Journal of Material Culture is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal, designed to cater for the increasing interest in material culture studies. It is concerned with the …

  9. Material Culture Studies and Ethnocultural Identity

    Material culture, a phrase that appeared in the social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, remained centred on the artefact per se up to the latter part of the …