Although material culture studies cross many disciplines, there are still theories, methods, and perspectives that are firmly located within particular disciplines. Understandings of material culture have been central to anthropology since its inception; during the late 19th and early 20th century ...
Material Culture and Anthropology-An Interview with Anthropologist Michael Rowlands of the University College LondonMICHAEL RowlandsDepartment of AnthropologyBIAN SimeiSocial Anthropology DepartmentZHAO XiuyunSouthwest Nationalities Research Academy民族学刊
but also on a geographical scale led to their classification into groups which are called ‘cultures’31,32. Usually the definition of an archaeological culture is based on only parts of the material object assembly. For prehistory
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After 'objects' had epistemologically fallen out of fashion amongst many humanities and social sciences in the post-modern era, the recent 'material turn' has again shifted the focus onto material culture. The latter development might offer an opportunity for a rapprochement between anthropology and...
with the culturalist connotations implied, but also because it was not operative for a conception of culture where non-technological aspects, such as art or styles, for example, did not have a primary functional sense in the adaptation to the environment. On the other hand, anthropology had ...
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Societies of immanence perceive the world through the interconnectedness of culture and nature, of things and places, of the natural and the supernatural, as well as the personal and cultural (Alberti2016; Alberti and Bray2009; Astor-Aguilera and Harvey2018; Bird-David1999; Reimer2012; Watts2013...
The first population, Neolithic one (4600–4000 BCE), comes from the site Brześć Kujawski 4 (BK4) and was a typically agricultural community representing the Brześć Kujawski Group of the Lengyel Culture (BKG), dealing with wheat cultivation as well as animal husbandry including ...
TEMPUS: Archaeology and Material Culture Studies in Anthropology Vol. 1. University of Queensland, Australia, 1989. viii + 213 pp., plates, figures, tab... cies in the middens may not be a good guide to actual abundance. Spaulding and his coauthors note many other problems in using ...