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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Stalking Invisible Objects: Analyzing Thingworlds in History and Archaeology w/John Robb
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SUMMARY:Stalking Invisible Objects: Analyzing Thingworlds in History and Archaeology w/John Robb
DESCRIPTION:<p>	<drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="25086778-b716-441b-bf39-38b072480a8c" alt="flyer" data-view-mode="hwp_medium"></drupal-media></p><p>	The human past is a material past, but we have never really understood material history. In large part this is due to a mismatch between what most material culture theories offer and what students of the past actually need. In this paper, following a quick, idiosyncratic and opinionated review of current material culture theory, Robb will argue that we need to shift from approaching objects philosophically to approaching them historically; this means innovating new methodologies which focus upon material culture’s most important qualities, the cumulativity and relationality which make a normal assemblage of objects a social reality of depth, persuasiveness and efficacy, a thingworld.</p><p>	<em>Sponsored by: Department of Anthropology; Department of History; Standing Committee on Archaeology; Medieval Material Culture Program, Committee on Medieval Studies</em></p>
LOCATION:Haller Hall, 102 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
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