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Week 4 — Gender and DomesticitySOCI/ANTH 441 Material CultureAlexandre EnkerliSeptember 24, 2008
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Today
•Logistics•Themes and approaches in material
culture•Readings
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Logistics
•Pre-write tonight at latest▫Will give feedback ASAP
•Project Part I next week•Forum discussions•Fabian on materiality of text
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Rights
•Property rights•Intellectual property•Cultural heritage•Appropriation
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Sociology of Technology
•Technology adoption•Shaping•Science•Engineering•Industrialization•Postmodernism
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Subjectivity
•Embodiment•Agency•Aesthetics•Personalization/customization•Value•Fetishism
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SI
•Self as social construction•Self is both subject and object•Learn self by interaction with material
objects•Making sense of the world and creating it
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SI and Material Culture
•Communicating self•Embodiment•Extend personality•Reminder of sense of self•Stability•Familiarity•Emotion
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Contact with Object
•Tactile•Communication•Bodies and things•Reveals inside
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Self and Physical World
•Social relation•Mother as object•Later division humans/non-humans•Objects maintain social attributes
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Goffman
•Presentation of self•Face-to-face interactions•Negotiations and drama•Categories of Objects (status,
exotic/indigenous, collective, stigma)•Official/alien uses (intended/unintended)•Social facilitators (conversation piece,
fidget…)
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Material Context (Room)
•Co-location•Highlighting/understating•Clustering/dispersing•Status inconsistency (eclectism)•Conformism (cultural norms)•Comment elicitation (conversation piece)
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Technological Politics
•Do things have politics? (Langdon Winner)▫Bridge against busses▫Racism of bridge
•Social determinism (“Guns don’t kill people”)
•Technological determinism (“Guns make people kill people”)
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Politics and Objects
•Embodiment (engineer social relationships)
•Inherent politics (required relationships)•Imbued (after the fact)
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Themes from Texts?
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Gordon References
•Bauman•Huizinga•Bakhtin•Geertz•Dundes•Merleau-Ponty•Lakoff and Johnson•Csikszentmihalyi•Goffman
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Research methods
•Folkloristics•Ethnographic semiotics•Longitudinal content analysis (neat
method)•Particularism•Microlevel analysis•Description
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Folkloristics
•Tradition•Material to verbal•Festivals•Humour•Domestic cultural property
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People
•Roles (curator, inspiration, interlocutors, etc.)
•Hommage/altar•Sense of community•Constructing groups•Playfulness
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Gender and Solidarity
•Proxemics•Nurturing•Class and social identity•Students, professors, secretaries•Contrast with office•Privacy•Community of experience/practise•Group property•Inside jokes
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Privacy
•Intimacy•Chat to formal•Inclusion/exclusion
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Objects
•Seed object•Identification with person•Silence•Kitsch
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Subverting Consumerism
•Freebies•Recycling•Inexpensive•Unintended uses
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Embodiment
•Communal body•Somatic sense of self•Sensory experience•Gendered body
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Sense of place (Basso)
•Territory•Choice of facilities•Story of the space•Symbolism
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Pascali References
•Derrida•Douglas•Pocius
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Distinctions
•Informal/formal•Inclusion/exclusion•Familiarity/distance•Private/public•Practical/Waste
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Gender
•Freedom•Control of space•Cleanliness•Kinship
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Immigrant culture
•Home ownership as success•“Internalized vision of what others might
think”•Architecture•Self-identity and social class•Kitsch•Seasons
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Places and Objects
•Extra Room•Status symbols•Precious items•Cost-cutting•Enjoying one's things
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Next Week
•Project•Barbie archaeology•Museum and interpretation