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Material culture. Material culture is the aspect of culture manifested by the physical objects and architecture of a society. The term is primarily used in archaeology and anthropology, but is also of interest to sociology, geography and history. [ 1] The field considers artifacts in relation to their specific cultural and historic contexts ...
Sub-discipline. Post-processual archaeology. Institutions. University of Cambridge. University College London. Chris Y. Tilley (1955–2024) was a British archaeologist known for his contributions to post-processual archaeological theory. He retired as Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at University College London in 2022. [1]
Culture can be either of two types, non-material culture or material culture. [5] Non-material culture refers to the non-physical ideas that individuals have about their culture, including values, belief systems, rules, norms, morals, language, organizations, and institutions, while material culture is the physical evidence of a culture in the ...
The difference between material culture and non-material culture is known as cultural lag. The term cultural lag refers to the notion that culture takes time to catch up with technological innovations, and the resulting social problems that are caused by this lag. In other words, cultural lag occurs whenever there is an unequal rate of change ...
Archaeology. Excavations at Atapuerca, an archaeological site in Spain. Archaeology or archeology[ a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a ...
Material Culture Review (French: Revue de la culture matérielle) is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal of material culture. [1] It is abstracted and indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. [2] The editor-in-chief is Ilaria Battiloro ( Mount Allison University ). It was originally established as the Material History Bulletin in ...
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. [1] This includes oral traditions such as tales, myths, legends, [a] proverbs, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions. [3] [4] This also includes material culture, such as traditional building
Cultural materialism emerged as a theoretical movement in the early 1980s along with new historicism, an American approach to early modern literature, with which it shares common ground. The term was coined by Williams, who used it to describe a theoretical blending of leftist culturalism and Marxist analysis.