Sophie Woodward, Sociology sophie.woodward@manchester.ac
What is material culture?
Sophie Woodward, Sociology
sophie.woodward@manchester.ac.uk
What is material culture?
? Objects are not inert ? They are invested with meanings, through
association, usage. ? These meanings change/grow over time. ? The lives of people and the lives of things
cannot be separated.
Challenges of the approach:
? What methods can be used to understand materiality and material objects?
? The limitations of word based qualitative methods.
? Multiple methods, no easy `answers'.
Material Culture ? background.
?1st used in OED (1843) regarding the `material civilisation' of Mexico
?Linked to rise of anthropology
?Cross-cultural artifacts are displayed.
Victorian cabinets of curiosities
The unusual, `other', un-systematised
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