ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dementia, Tacit Knowledge, Iterative Design
29 Mar 2017
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Role of material culture in social life: technology and society, humans and artifacts. How we can learn with things: intersections of politics and culture, why we need to make things tangible. Berlin key designed so that you must push it through. Consider humans, and you are by that very act interested in things. Characteristic patterns of material attributes in objets from those ways of doing. Material culture embedded in symbolic expression but also in systems of action. Bourdieu (1977) theory of practice (habitus) to situate material culture and chaines operatories and social actors. Local technical systems are a group of significant choices that suggest further choices. All know about barbed arrows not all use them to hurt. Material culture forms a large part of cultural practice and values example of luo people of western kenya. Small set of luo women work in potter communities. Death of owner leaves house to decay. Housing compounds held large, extended families (polygamous)
