Thinking With Things: History and Culture Through Objects

Chin, My Life with Things, selections.

Dannehl, “From Production to Consumption.”

Starr [as printed], “Ethnography of Infrastructure.”

Straight, “From Samburu Heirloom to New Age Artifact.”

Ulrich, Thinking with Things, introduction.

Simon, “Who Is This Museum For?”

Rubio, “On the Discrepancy between Objects and Things.”

Bell, “Introduction: Unseen Connections” and “The Beginnings and Ends of Basketry…”

Savage, “The Past in the Present.”

Auslander, “Beyond Words.”

Auslander and Zahra, “Objects of War.”

Assigned viewings include This Is Not a Chair, Cast in India, In & Out of Africa, Return of the Sacred Pole, Dahomey, and Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision.