Material Culture Theory and Practice

3 credits · Graduate

Students will explore material culture as both theory and disciplinary field of study. Material Culture is an effective tool for investigating history through a lens of object analysis. As a method, material culture engages objects from across disciplinary silos and across time and space, disrupting ideas of value, hierarchy, and exchange. As a descendant of anthropology, human geography, folk and museum studies, and art history, material culture has become an integral mode through which to explore social groups and objects customarily marginalized within the academy. FORMATS: Seminar