16 Facts About Material culture

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Material culture is the aspect of social reality grounded in the objects and architecture that surround people.

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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.

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Material culture is contrasting to symbolic culture, which includes nonmaterial symbols, beliefs, and social constructs.

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Material culture can contain memories and mutual experiences across time and influence thoughts and feelings.

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Material culture was president of the American Anthropological Association .

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Material culture wrote The Science of Culture in 1949 in which he outlined schema of the world as divided into cultural, biological, and physical levels of phenomenon.

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White believed that the development of culture rested primarily on technology and that the history of human technology could be understood through the study of human-produced materials.

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Material culture pioneered there the ideas of using neglected substances such as trash pits, potshards, and soil stains to reveal human actions.

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Material culture describes the benefits of work on exhibit design as a vehicle for education.

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Material culture suggests a variety of modes for interrogating artifacts.

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Material culture's established the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection with 3000 items for the college's theater department.

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An archaeological Material culture is a recurring assemblage of the artifacts from a specific time and place, most often that has no written record.

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Recently, a scientific methodology and approach to the analysis of pre-historic material culture has become prevalent with systematic excavation techniques producing detailed and precise results.

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Material culture is most known for his research on kinship and social structures, but he studied the effect of material culture, specifically technology, on the evolution of a society.

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Material culture believed that it was crucial for an anthropologist to analyze not only the physical properties of material culture but its meanings and uses in its indigenous context to begin to understand a society.

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Social aspects in material culture include the social behavior around it: the way that the material is used, shared, talked about, or made.

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