SOCI/ANTH 441/2A – Material Culture

Week 8: October 22, 2014

Presentations

  • Schedule shaping up
  • Small group option
  • Work in progress
  • Preliminary results
  • More than show and tell
  • Getting feedback and inspiration

Geismar

Bell, Joshua A, and Haidy Geismar. “Materialising Oceania: New Ethnographies of Things in Melanesia and Polynesia.” The Australian Journal of Anthropology 20, no. 1 (April 2009): 3–27. 

Griswold Worldcloud

Distinctive Words

things (74), materialisation (32), material (50), social (49), oceania (23)

Selected Words

things, material, materialisation, objects, materiality, artefacts, museum, local, indigenous, colonial, exchange, collections, materialise, malinowski, art, museums, collecting, photographs, encounters, canoes, canoe, production, native, artefact, cargo-cults, cargo

Ethnography

  • Historical perspective
  • Objects to words and back
  • Post-colonialism
  • Crisis of representation
  • Oceania

Selected References

Urry, Tilley, Strathern, Stocking, Sahlins, Penny, Obeyesekere, Miller, Mauss, Malinowski, Lévi-Strauss, Latour, Kopytoff, Ingold, Henare, Gell, Freud, Firth, Clifford, Appadurai

SOCI/ANTH 441 Meeting 8

By Alexandre Enkerli

SOCI/ANTH 441 Meeting 8

Slides for the eighth class meeting in Alex Enkerli's SOCI/ANTH 441 Material Culture course at Concordia University.

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