soci/anth 441 material culture week 4: gender and domesticity
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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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Pascali References
•Derrida•Douglas•Pocius
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Places and Objects
•Extra Room•Status symbols•Precious items•Cost-cutting•Enjoying one's things
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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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Spaces
•Control environment•Multi-sensory environments•Interactive creation of spaces•Interior/exterior•Front-/backstage•Private/public
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Society
•Immigration•Gendered fields•Security/expression•Gift/labour exchange•Socio-economic marker•State macro-/micro-ideology
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Next Week
•Project•Barbie archaeology•Museum and interpretation