(Re)thinking the Material Culture Theory

“Things” as Study Subject

Authors

  • Aline Maria Müller Pesquisadora independente
  • Rodrigo Luiz Simas de Aguiar Laboratório de Arqueologia da Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30612/rehr.v15i30.15016

Keywords:

Cultura Material, Teoria, Humanidades, Ciências Sociais.

Abstract

The Material Culture becomes an interesting field of investigation among humanities. This fact is noted by the expansion of academic papers dedicated to the material production of human groups. But there were some moments that the material culture was understood only as an illustrative appendix of the researches that the main subject was the social life of communities. With the development of the anthropological theory the role of the material culture in human societies was reviewed by the anthropologists that start to point the active participation of material things in social life. The meaning of the material culture now overcome the condition of simple object and in some cases manifest agency.

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Author Biographies

Aline Maria Müller, Pesquisadora independente

Doutora em Antropologia pela Universidade de Coimbra.

Rodrigo Luiz Simas de Aguiar, Laboratório de Arqueologia da Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados

Doutor em Antropologia pela Universidade de Salamanca. Professor associado de antropologia da Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados

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15/12/2021

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Müller, A. M., & Aguiar, R. L. S. de. (2021). (Re)thinking the Material Culture Theory: “Things” as Study Subject. Revista Eletrônica História Em Reflexão, 15(30), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.30612/rehr.v15i30.15016

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Vol. 15 No. 30 (2021): Revista Eletrônica História em Reflexão

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