Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Chapter 1: Making Sense of Material
Culture Edited
- 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).
- "needs"
- "it is our needs that
interpret the world; our
drives For or Against" (26).
- 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
- deductive reasoning
- applied semiotic analysis
- Perspectivism
- Nietzsche
- multi-disciplinary approach to
knowledge
- What do we do when experts
disagree?
- needs
- interpretation
- The Rashomon
Problem
- 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
- "a theory is a way of seeing, an optic,
that focuses on a specific subject
matter" (23).
- Nature of
Theory
- Freudian psychoanalytic
theory
- consciousness
- pre-consciousness
- unconscious
- id
- ego
- superego
- method: ways to come up with data
- methodology: methods used in a particular
area