Material culture is occupied with the study of the interrelation between individuals and their things. Also implies the method used in production of things, the historic significance, preservation, and the mental perception of objects. From that perspective, material culture could be considered objects of art, buildings defined by architecture, and even simple daily clothing articles wore by individuals in a society or more interestingly, musical instruments and music written to express emotionally that aspect of material culture. Derived from the need of preserving such valuable elements, various disciplines evolve such as art history archaeology, historic preservation, and anthropology, folklore and museum studies.
According to Lance Winn (n.d.) with respect to Foucault, “the things we make reflect our beliefs about the world; the things around us affect the way that we understand the world. There is an unending circularity to this that implies less a circle and more a kind of wheel moving.”
Material culture definitely involves the existence of material product and of an idealistic creator. Between these two, a necessary condition for significant perpetuation is the presence of a dynamic relationship. People make things for a variety of reasons.
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One classical example is the use of the index finger. While in US is perfectly normal to signal someone using your index finger, in Japan that could be considered offensive. Once humans became capable of articulating sounds, language was created and became the center piece of the non-material culture. To this day, language is interpreted to be words that are used in communication between individuals in a verbal or written form. In any culture words as combination of letters could have different cultural
According to Lance Winn (n.d.) with respect to Foucault, “the things we make reflect our beliefs about the world; the things around us affect the way that we understand the world. There is an unending circularity to this that implies less a circle and more a kind of wheel moving.”
Material culture definitely involves the existence of material product and of an idealistic creator. Between these two, a necessary condition for significant perpetuation is the presence of a dynamic relationship. People make things for a variety of reasons.
There are things produced to …show more content…
One classical example is the use of the index finger. While in US is perfectly normal to signal someone using your index finger, in Japan that could be considered offensive. Once humans became capable of articulating sounds, language was created and became the center piece of the non-material culture. To this day, language is interpreted to be words that are used in communication between individuals in a verbal or written form. In any culture words as combination of letters could have different cultural