American material culture

    • What is material culture?

      What is material culture? Material culture is the expression of culture. It is the physical objects of a culture, such as tools, domestic objects, religious objects, works of art, including visual, literary, and performative art.



    • What does material culture consist of?

      Material culture refers to the physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their lives. These include homes, neighborhoods, cities, schools, churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, offices, factories and plants, tools, means of production, goods and products, stores, and so forth.


    • What is the importance of material culture?

      “At the most basic level, material culture is important because it is our buffer against the environment. For example, we create shelter to protect ourselves from the weather and give ourselves privacy” (Kendall 2006:45–46).


    • [PDF File]AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE Our Shared Purpose - UMass Amherst

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      Resources Over the course of the semester you may want to check out the below: Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture, http://decorativearts.library.wisc.edu/resources.html LibGuide: Material Culture, U-Delaware http://guides.lib.udel.edu/materialculture


    • AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE AND FOLKLIFE - Open Scholarship

      Description This course offers research and interpretative perspectives on American material culture, defined as the interconnection of tangible, human-made forms reflecting cultural ideas and traditions.The forms receiving emphasis in this course are folk art and architecture.


    • Notes on the Study of Early American Material Culture

      material culture studies today, this issue offers a sampler of topics and approaches from the forefront of material culture scholarship. The issue divides roughly into two groups that reflect the broad themes discussed above. In the first group, Timothy Shannon, Adrienne Hood, and Nora Pat Small show how Americans negotiated the new world of ...


    • [PDF File]AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE AND FOLKLIFE - Open Scholarship

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      Description This course offers perspectives on American material culture as the interconnection of tangible, human-made forms reflecting cultural ideas and traditions. It sets folk art, craft, and architecture as special evidence of people’s relation to place–in community, region, nation, ethnicity, and individuality--within American experience.


    • American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field. ANN SMART ...

      technology and culture, particularly the role played by technology in the construction of American culture identity. Here he explores the way in which the technological innovation of the American axe can be explored as an element in the development of American exceptionalism; he is one of several recent scholars engaged in a reexploration


    • The Material and the Real: American Conceptions of ...

      materialist rhetoric revealed a desire to preserve certain facets of American religious, social, intellectual, and political culture believed to be under threat. For much of the century, anti-materialist critics fixated on the allegedly atheistic implications of philosophical materialism.


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