Chapter 1: Making Sense of Material Culture

Chapter 1: Making Sense of Material Culture

1. Defining Material Culture

   • material culture p. 16 objects and artifacts p.16 culture p.17

2. Model for the Study of Material Culture

   • Sherlock Holmes
   • The Blue Carbuncle
   • semiotic analysis

3. On the Nature of Theory

   • Definition of Theory

4. Nietzche and Perspectivism

   • a perspectivist approach

5. The Rashomon Problem

   • What do we do when theorists from different disciplines disagree about how to interpret an artifact or object?

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