Prof. Adrienne Hood
Classroom: SS2129
Office: SS2059
Phone: 978-8484
Office Hours: Mon. 3:00 -5:00, Thurs. 1:00-2:00 & by appt
E-mail: [email protected]

As social history has evolved over the past decades it has developed new methodologies with which to investigate people who have not traditionally been part of the written record. One of the most obvious, yet most difficult, is to study the material culture of past - the clothing, household goods, art, architecture, and landscape. This can include analysis of the objects themselves, or indirect evidence about the objects.

This course will explore current interdisciplinary trends in material culture theory and methodology. With our reliance on written evidence, historians have lagged behind archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and folklorists in developing sophisticated methodological frameworks for the study of objects. We will look at how artifacts can inform historical inquiry and conversely how historical research can shape what we know about the material worlds of the past.

Mark Chan
Agatha Cinader
Peter Gibbons
Jennifer Hamblyn
Robin Linley
Cynthia Magocsi
Anthony Percival
Erica Phillips
Antoinette Duplessis
Sara Faulkner-Fale
Jane Griffith
Roderick MacLean
Geoffey Morgan
Arlis Peer
Bruce Retallack

LINKS TO RELATED SITES

• Society for the History of Technology (SHOT): Material Culture Syllabus

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