Chapter 1: Making Sense of Material Culture Edited

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Chapter 1: Making Sense of Material Culture Edited
  1. What is material culture?
    1. "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).
      1. Material culture allows us to better understand societies and cultures if we are able to "read" how the objects were produced and used.
        1. Culture
          1. Recurrent patterns of social behavior connected to artefacts, beliefs, customs, traditions, and values.
            1. "the objects tell you about the culture, and the culture tells you about the objects" (22).
            2. "needs"
              1. "it is our needs that interpret the world; our drives For or Against" (26).
          2. Analyzing Material Culture
            1. Semiotic Analysis
              1. using clues given by objects, artifacts, facial expression, body language, etc. to draw conclusions about activities and identities
                1. Sherlock Holmes
                  1. The Blue Carbuncle
                    1. "hat example" Watson vs. Sherlock
                      1. knowledge
                        1. attentive to details
                          1. makes inferences
                          2. deductive reasoning
                            1. applied semiotic analysis
                      2. Perspectivism
                        1. Nietzsche
                          1. multi-disciplinary approach to knowledge
                            1. What do we do when experts disagree?
                            2. needs
                              1. interpretation
                                1. The Rashomon Problem
                                2. Theories
                                  1. "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."
                                    1. all theories are partial and have limitations
                                      1. "a theory is a way of seeing, an optic, that focuses on a specific subject matter" (23).
                                      2. Nature of Theory
                                        1. Freudian psychoanalytic theory
                                          1. consciousness
                                            1. pre-consciousness
                                                1. unconscious
                                                  1. id
                                                    1. ego
                                                      1. superego
                                                2. method: ways to come up with data
                                                  1. methodology: methods used in a particular area
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