Material Culture

A brief history of the study of material culture in connection with anthropology and archeology from the first beginnings in the middle of the 19th century (study of material remains, understanding of culture and society through objects) to modern studies of material culture from the 1970s onwards (cultural materialism - M. Harris, post-structuralism – eg. understanding taste – P. Bourdieu, understanding relations between words, power and things - M. Foucault; consumerism studies). Understanding material culture from contemporary perspective of the phenomenological, ontological and material turn (B. Latour, T. Ingold, A. Appadurai, C. Tilley, D. Miller, D. Hicks). A brief history of the study of material culture in Slovenia. Understanding material culture through the understanding of everyday objects, the relationships between them and the relationships between people and objects (objects and their agency in relation to people), in the context of concrete environments and through modern sensory and non-verbal research. Research methods, methodological approaches to research with elements of material culture (S. Woodward).
Study of fashion, clothing culture, nutrition, interior design, tools, games and toys, sports, entertainment and decoration, machinery, transport, photography, cybernetics, informatics, trade, consumerism, money, museums (museum objects), kultural heritage etc. Interdisciplinary research in the field of material culture (methodological and theoretical dialogue between different sciences).

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