Material culture studies: on things and stuff in Archaeology

• Autor(a) principal: Hilbert, Klaus
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Oficina do Historiador
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/oficinadohistoriador/article/view/36502
• topic: Phenomenological Archaeology. Semiotic Archaeology. Material Culture. Stuff.; Arqueologia Fenomenológica. Arqueologia Semiótica. Cultura Material. Substâncias.

This essay hopes to address the communicative and expressive qualities of material culture and of stuff, regardless of any chronological limit and through an interdisciplinary dialogue with archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, sociologists, economists, psychologists and philosophers. My expectancy to this text is to incorporate into the study of material culture the interference of things as well as stuff into the record and archaeological practices. Recent studies of material culture emphasizes the meaning of things as well as stuff and start from the idea that they can be perceived and seen as signs that help their owners and users in their communicative processes, and in the formation of identities. I believe that perceiving these processes as a dynamic network of interrelations will help establish accurate and participatory phenomenological connections with other members of society, and better understand the symmetrical relationships between people, things, and stuff.