Chp 14 Materality: Constructing Social Relationships and Meanings with Things

________ includes objects made and used in any society.

________ observed the symbolic power of what would seem to us a commonplace object (a hat) on the island of Walis along the north coast of Papua New Guinea in 1993.

________, Jr. (1985), suggested seven dimensions through which we can examine art: height, width, depth, time (history), power, wealth, and aesthetics.

________ calls for the repatriation of human remains and artifacts to the families of the dead.

________ take objects seriously and consider all the ways people use them to communicate with others, define themselves, and control others.

The 1987 ________ incident, where private looters destroyed an Indian burial site near Uniontown, Kentucky, galvanized support from anthropologists and archaeologists for legislatino that would protect material culture.

The 1887 ________ allowed for lands on Indian reservations to be sold to non- Indian owners.

________ is research and planning aimed at identifying, interpreting, and protecting sites and artifacts of historic or prehistoric importance.

People express themselves through the possession and ________.

________ is the recognition that different individuals and groups find different patterns ________ pleasing.

________ began in museums, focusing on collections of cultural, archaeological, linguistic, and biological data.

________ reflects the fact that objects can be used to display ________ and social status.

The bike has ________ (it must be useable by an average- sized human) but may also be viewed as an expression of artistry.

________- having the quality of being physical or material.

________ (AIM)- the most prominent and one of the earliest American Indian activist groups, founded in 1968.

________ and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)- the 1990 law that established the ownership of human remains, grave goods, and important cultural objects as belonging to the Native Americans whose ancestors once owned them.

World ________ program- A UNESCO- run program that provides financial support to maintain sites of importance to humanity.

People define and express who they are through consumption: their social status, economic means, gender identities, aesthetic sensibilities, ________ and discernment, and identification with a certain social class or interest group.

________ consumption- the cultural perspectives and social processes that shape and are shaped by how goods and services are bought, sold, and used in contemporary capitalism.

________ in any culture can use aesthetics to demonstrate and legitimate their social, political, or religious power.

The ________ of height, width, and depth are physical measurements.

________ is the quality of being physical or material.

________- the objects made and used in any society.

________ (CRM)- research and planning aimed at identifying, interpreting, and protecting sites and artifacts of historic or prehistoric significance.

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What is the role of objects and material culture in constructing social relationships and cultural meanings

John Terrell, Repatriation, and the Maori House at the Field Museum."

height, width, depth, time (history), power, wealth, and aesthetics

where it came from, how interpretationns have changed through time

it was Barjanis hat and, as a European hat, a symbolic reminder of his prediction

creation, exchange, uses, and discard

manufacture, packaging, transport, and so on

a term that refers to the cultural perspectives and social processes that shape and are shaped by how goods and services are bought, sold, and used in contemporary capitalism

the most prominent and one of the earliest American Indian activist groups, founded in 1968

research and planning aimed at identifying, interpreting, and protecting sites and artifacts of historic or prehistoric significance

the cultural perspectives and social processes that shape and are shaped by how goods and services are bought, sold, and used in contemporary capitalism

the objects made and used in any society

having the quality of being physical or material

the 1990 law that established the ownership of human remains, grave goods, and important cultural objects as belonging to the Native Americans whose ancestors once owned them

the return of human remains or cultural artifacts to the communities of descendants of the people to whom they originally belonged

A UNESCO-run program that provides financial support to maintain sites of importance to humanity