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May 7, 2020 · In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, academic approaches to things have changed again. If antiquarianism has been revived and radically modified as material culture studies; if archaeology, art history, and anthropology have developed their own sets of specialist assumptions and practices; and if history remains preponderantly dependent on the interpretation of writings, the ...
Material culture studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the relationship between people and their things, the making, history, preservation, and interpretation of objects. It draws on theory and practice from such disciplines as art history, archaeology, anthropology, history, historic preservation, folklore, and museum studies, among others.
This task illustrates the pervasive ubiquity of material culture in human life, irrespective of, and yet shaped by, time, place and culture. Objects are omnipresent, and act as a uniquely sympathetic point of connection between humans, past and present. As Leonie Hannan and Sarah Longair have stated, ‘as long as humans have made material ...
- Serena Dyer
- 2021
One interesting thread that runs through the book is the relationship between material culture and public history Not only do objects tell stories of everyday life that are not necessarily captured in written documents, but public history also situates the collaborations between museums, academics, and concerned publics
Jun 1, 2010 · There is history from things, ‘in which material artifacts are used as raw materials for the discipline of history and the interpretation of the past’, and history of things: ‘the historical analysis of the relationship between objects, people and their representations’ (p. 25); so far so easy for students to emulate.
- Catherine Richardson
- 2010
The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies Material culture studies is an interdisciplinary Þeld that examines the relation-ships between people and their things: the production, history, preservation, and interpretation of objects. It draws on theory and practice from disciplines
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May 7, 2020 · Since the turn of the millennium, a wide range of theorists have rediscovered material culture, in fields ranging across literature, history, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy. One of the major problems is that of materiality. The point of material culture, of course, is that it is material: there must be a fundamental connection between ...
