The last archaeologist? Material culture and contested identities.

Australian Aboriginal Studies;  September 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Material culture provides what Buchli (1995) calls...identities. Consequently, the use of material culture as the data of archaeological research...themselves used privileged access to material culture to define their own disciplinary...

Introduction

Transformations;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......present issue, devoted to Teaching Material Culture, brings together scholars and teachers...variously and creatively incorporated material culture into their pedagogy. Several of our...resurgence and revitalized presence of material culture studies in academia, especially in...

Object Lessons: Thinking About Material Culture

Art Education;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......in an art classroom, and includes an example to illustrate teaching about an object of material culture. Why Study Material Culture? A material culture orientation includes the study of visual culture, yet calls for a broader view-to encompass...

material culture

Dictionary of the Social Sciences;      63 words ...material culture The totality of objects produced...artifacts. In methodological terms, material culture is especially central to archaeology...lacking. Since the 1960s, the study of material culture has also become an important subfield...

Now you don't see it, now you do: situating the Irish in the material...

Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies;  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Material culture is culture made material; it is the inner...but not ending with them, the study of material culture uses objects to approach human thought and action. (Glassie, Material Culture 41) THE following exploration of a historic...

'MOSTLY HARMLESS'?: MISSIONARIES, ADMINISTRATORS AND MATERIAL CULTURE ON...

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  September 9, 1999 ;     700+ words ......which what has been emphasized is not material culture's stability - any capacity to refer...with specific reference to Pacific material culture, Smith's project has been developed...wisdom, that the special value of material culture lies in its stability as evidence...

Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Western Folklore;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective...bibliography, index. $49.95 cloth) "Material culture"-the phrase, not the thing...cultures continue to find "material culture" a useful term. And folklorists...

(book reviews)

Journal of Asian and African Studies;  December 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......pp. Cloth $49.95, paper $24.50. African Material Culture is composed of fourteen interdisciplinary...taken for granted by the researcher of material culture (p. 145). Material culture is construed very broadly to include not...

THE SLIPPERINESS OF OBJECTS: Putting the Past in the Present in a Class of...

Transformations;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...My course, "Material Culture and Everyday Life" at the University...American home through the lens of material culture. We looked at home design through...engaging for undergraduates. My material culture course, however, had effectively...

Goods, Power, History: Latin America's Material Culture

Business History Review;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Goods, Power, History: Latin America's Material Culture. By Arnold J. Bauer. Cambridge: Cambridge...identifies "six broad stages" of material culture (pre-Columbian, conquest, colonial...independence. He contrasts the colonial material culture of the eighteenth century, when Spanish...

BETWEEN TEXTS AND MATERIAL THINGS: Using First-hand Experience to...

Transformations;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......that end, in my teaching, I draw on material culture within the context of ethnographic...enact their religious beliefs through material culture. In Material Christianity, Religion...America, Colleen McDannell writes that "material culture speciahsts derive meanings from objects...

Jennie Batchelor and Cora Kaplan, eds. Women and Material Culture,...

Wordsworth Circle;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......toward vehement empiricism. Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830, edited by Jennie Batchelor...they seek to calibrate. Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830 offers an intriguing mix...certainties. Batchelor and Kaplan examine Material Culture as the interactions between subjects...

Material Culture and Sacred Landscape: The Anthropology of the Siberian...

Journal of Ecological Anthropology;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Material Culture and Sacred Landscape: The Anthropology...almost as much attention to the material culture and environment of the people they...and its close attention to Khanty material culture. But this is not a work of vulgar...

The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture.(Book Review)

Pacific Affairs;  September 22, 2004 ;     647 words ...THE IMPACT OF BUDDHISM ON CHINESE MATERIAL CULTURE. By John Kieschnick. Princeton (New...ignored, and the study of Buddhist material culture was largely restricted to formalistic...devoted entirely to Chinese Buddhist material culture, published by a major academic press...

Land of the Flea; The Home of the Brave Browsers Through Our `Material...

The Washington Post;  August 28, 1994 ;     700+ words ......am engaged in field research about `material culture' and I'm in damned good company...postwar America? Marchese, in an essay, "Material Culture and Artifact Classification," suggests...catalogue offered "Flea Markets and Material Culture," in Brimfield, Mass., where every...