- "Material culture is the aspect of social reality grounded in the objects and architecture that surround people."
The physical objects and artifacts created by a culture and used to communicate cultural values, beliefs, and practices.
Materiality: The study of how objects, artifacts, and material culture have meaning and influence in society.
Object biography: The study of an object's life history, including its creation, use, and meaning over time.
Material culture and identity: The study of how material culture is used to express identity, both individually and collectively.
Consumption and materiality: The study of how consumption patterns and practices are related to material culture.
Material culture and power: The study of how material culture is used to convey power relations, particularly in terms of social class, gender, and race.
Material culture and memory: The study of how material culture is used to preserve and convey memory, particularly in terms of collective and personal histories.
Material culture and cultural heritage: The study of how material culture is used to preserve and promote cultural heritage, particularly in terms of museums, archives, and heritage tourism.
Materiality and the environment: The study of how material culture interacts with the environment and how this relationship affects human behavior and social relations.
Material culture and globalization: The study of how material culture is affected by and affects globalization processes.
Material culture and technology: The study of how technology and material culture are intertwined and how this relationship affects human cognition and behavior.
Material culture and aesthetics: The study of how material culture is used for aesthetic purposes, particularly in terms of design, fashion, and art.
Material culture and production: The study of how material culture is produced and the social and economic processes involved in its creation.
Material culture and social change: The study of how material culture is used to promote and resist social change, particularly in terms of activism and social movements.
Material culture and religion: The study of how material culture is used to express and perform religious beliefs and practices.
Material culture and language: The study of how material culture is used to communicate and symbolize meaning in language, particularly in terms of semiotics and linguistics.
Artifacts: Physical objects created by humans that can provide insight into their behavior and beliefs.
Architecture: The design and construction of buildings and structures.
Clothing: The clothes that humans have traditionally worn, which can provide insight into their cultural and economic practices.
Foodways: The ways in which a culture produces, prepares, and consumes food, which can reveal social and religious practices.
Technology: The tools and techniques used by a culture to achieve a particular task, such as agriculture or transportation.
Symbols: Materials that represent important values or beliefs, such as flags or icons.
Rituals: Formalized actions or practices performed for religious, social, or ceremonial purposes.
Music: The sound created by humans through singing or playing instruments, which can provide insight into their cultural practices and beliefs.
Literature: Written or oral stories, poems, or folklore that provide insight into a culture’s traditions and values.
Sports and games: Activities created for pleasure or competition, which can reveal social and economic practices.
- "It includes the usage, consumption, creation, and trade of objects as well as the behaviors, norms, and rituals that the objects create or take part in."
- "Some scholars also include other intangible phenomena that include sound, smell and events, while some even consider language and media as part of it."
- "The term is most commonly used in archaeological and anthropological studies, to define material or artifacts as they are understood in relation to specific cultural and historic contexts, communities, and belief systems."
- "Material culture can be described as any object that humans use to survive, define social relationships, represent facets of identity, or benefit peoples' state of mind, social, or economic standing."
- "Material culture is contrasting to symbolic culture, which includes nonmaterial symbols, beliefs, and social constructs."
- "The scholarly analysis of material culture, which can include both human-made and natural or altered objects, is called material culture studies."
- "It tells of the relationships between people and their things: the making, history, preservation, and interpretation of objects."
- "It draws on both theory and practice from the social sciences and humanities such as art history, archaeology, anthropology, history, historic preservation, folklore, archival science, literary criticism, and museum studies, among others." Note: As an AI language model, my responses are generated based on the information provided in your question. I do not have real-time access to the paragraph you posted.