ANTH 214 - Modern Material Culture

Institution:

Trinity College

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Description:

This course examines the reflexive relationship between things, i.e. material culture, and human thought and behavior. Social relations and questions of identity are analyzed via people's relationship to commodities. Beginning in the 18th century and continuing to the present, various forms of material culture, from gravestones to cars and clothes, are studied with a critical eye towards understanding ways in which they influence social life. We will focus on the rise of consumer culture and the increasing development of people's dependence on commodities to substitute for human relations. The course draws from anthropological, including archaeological, theory and method in its examination of the ways in which human experience is made sense of, mediated, and subverted by material culture. 1.00 units, Lecture

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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