Material Culture

Catalog description

This course considers how objects embody social relationships and cultural meanings from a variety of perspectives. The major goal of the course is to enhance our understanding of the diversity of people's engagement with the material world to shape social relations. This course is also an attempt to re-connect sub-disciplines of anthropology (socio-cultural anthropology, archaeology, physical anthropology, and linguistics) and to build a general anthropology" of material culture. The course is also relevant to students in related disciplines such as art history