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Material Culture and Visual Methods (Methodology (Deduction - interpreting…
Material Culture and Visual Methods
Material
artifacts (objects made by man or modified by man)
Function
Art
sometimes more useful as objective cultural indexes
Diversions
Adornment
Modifications of the landscape
Applied Arts
Devices
excludes natural objects
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natural objects may indicate human activity (stone walls, alle'e of trees)
Why?
Inherent and Attached Value
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variable
utility
aesthetic
human and world
More representative of the whole (including non-literate)
Longevity/preservation
obsolete?
how value determines this
Style of cultural expression in absence of direct representation; more truthful
Cultural Perspective
Constructivist, ethnography
material culture helps to circumvent this bias; allowing for more experiential observation via senses - not text
Quest for cultural belief systems, patterns of belief of a particular group of people in a certain time and place
Theoretical
Determinism - dictates the methodological procedures used in unpacking an object
Structuralism - configurations of an artifact correspond to patterns in the mind of producer(s) and parent society
necessary component of affirming human reality
Semiotics - artifacts transmit signals that elucidate mental patterns or structures
Methodology
Deduction - interpreting the interaction between the object and the perceiver
Intellectual engagement
cultural matricies
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Sensory engagement
emotional response
Description - recording the internal evidence of the object itself
substantial analysis
content
Speculation - framing hypotheses and questions which lead out from the object to external evidence for testing and resolution
Theories and Hypotheses
Program of Research
External Evidence