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ANTH 4737

Material Culture

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2022

Topics

  • Introduction to the course
  • Why is there so much stuff in our lives? What does our stuff mean to us?
  • History of material culture studies in anthropology and archaeology
  • 07 Understanding Material Culture, Parts 1 and 2, Library Reserve
  • 83 Things ain’t what they used to be: Material culture studies in anthropology
  • in D. Miller (ed.) Royal Anthropological Institute News 59: 5-7+1
  • Gosden, C. and Y. Marshall
  • 99 The cultural biography of objects. World Archaeology 31
  • Morphy, Howard, and Morgan Perkins
  • 06 The anthropology of art: a reflection on its history and contemporary
  • practice. In H. Morphy and M. Perkins (eds.) The Anthropology of Art: A Reader, pp
  • Oxford: Blackwell
  • From objects to identity
  • 86 Introduction: commodities and the politics of value. In Appadurai, Arjun
  • (ed.), The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, Cambridge
  • Cambridge University Press
  • _0.pdf
  • ANTH 4737 Material Culture 2022 Page
  • 86 The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process. In A. Appadurai (ed.)
  • The Social Life of Things: Commodities In Cultural Perspective, Cambridge

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