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1_Chapter 1: Making Sense of Material Culture
- What is material culture?
- "A collective name for all the behavior
patterns socially acquired and
transmitted by mean of symbols...also
material instruments or artifacts in
which cultural achievements are
embodied" (17).
- Material culture allows
us to better understand
societies and cultures if
we are able to "read"
how the objects were
produced and used.
- Culture
- Recurrent patterns of social
behavior connected to
artefacts, beliefs, customs,
traditions, and values.
- "the objects tell you
about the culture,
and the culture tells
you about the
objects" (22).
- "the objects tell you
about the culture,
and the culture tells
you about the
objects" (22).
- Recurrent patterns of social
behavior connected to
artefacts, beliefs, customs,
traditions, and values.
- Culture
- Analyzing Material Culture
- Semiotic Analysis
- using clues given by
objects, artifacts, facial
expression, body
language, etc. to draw
conclusions about
activities and identities
- Sherlock Holmes
- The Blue Carbuncle
- "hat example" Watson vs. Sherlock
- knowledge
- attentive to details
- makes inferences
- knowledge
- "hat example" Watson vs. Sherlock
- Sherlock Holmes
- using clues given by
objects, artifacts, facial
expression, body
language, etc. to draw
conclusions about
activities and identities
- Perspectivism
- Nietzsche
- multi-disciplinary approach to knowledge
- What do we do when experts disagree?
- What do we do when experts disagree?
- needs
- interpretation
- The Rashomon Problem
- Nietzsche
- Theories
- "Theories are like goggles
that help determine the way
we see the world, that point
our attention to certain
things, and distract us from
others."
- all theories are
partial and
have
limitations
- "Theories are like goggles
that help determine the way
we see the world, that point
our attention to certain
things, and distract us from
others."
- Nature of Theory
- Freudian psychoanalytic
theory
- consciousness
- pre-consciousness
- unconscious
- consciousness
- Semiotic Analysis
- Material culture allows
us to better understand
societies and cultures if
we are able to "read"
how the objects were
produced and used.
- "A collective name for all the behavior
patterns socially acquired and
transmitted by mean of symbols...also
material instruments or artifacts in
which cultural achievements are
embodied" (17).
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