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
Today
•Logistics•Themes and approaches in material
culture•Readings
Logistics
•Pre-write tonight at latest▫Will give feedback ASAP
•Project Part I next week•Forum discussions•Fabian on materiality of text
Rights
•Property rights•Intellectual property•Cultural heritage•Appropriation
Sociology of Technology
•Technology adoption•Shaping•Science•Engineering•Industrialization•Postmodernism
Subjectivity
•Embodiment•Agency•Aesthetics•Personalization/customization•Value•Fetishism
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
SI and Material Culture
•Communicating self•Embodiment•Extend personality•Reminder of sense of self•Stability•Familiarity•Emotion
Contact with Object
•Tactile•Communication•Bodies and things•Reveals inside
Self and Physical World
•Social relation•Mother as object•Later division humans/non-humans•Objects maintain social attributes
Pascali References
•Derrida•Douglas•Pocius
Places and Objects
•Extra Room•Status symbols•Precious items•Cost-cutting•Enjoying one's things
Gordon References
•Bauman•Huizinga•Bakhtin•Geertz•Dundes•Merleau-Ponty•Lakoff and Johnson•Csikszentmihalyi•Goffman
Research methods
•Folkloristics•Ethnographic semiotics•Longitudinal content analysis (neat
method)•Particularism•Microlevel analysis•Description
Folkloristics
•Tradition•Material to verbal•Festivals•Humour•Domestic cultural property
Spaces
•Control environment•Multi-sensory environments•Interactive creation of spaces•Interior/exterior•Front-/backstage•Private/public
Society
•Immigration•Gendered fields•Security/expression•Gift/labour exchange•Socio-economic marker•State macro-/micro-ideology
Next Week
•Project•Barbie archaeology•Museum and interpretation