HIS1543Y
Topics in Material Culture
Artifact Analysis
CLASS OF 2000/01
updated 04/12/00
In this exercise the students applied one of the many artifact models to the group of object they chose to analyse for their larger research project.
- Sarah Amato
subject: coffee cups
model: Gregg Finley, "The Gothic Revival and the Victorian Church in New Brunswick: Toward a Strategy for Material Culture Research." Material History Bulletin 32 (1990): 1-16.
- John Bell
subject: lottery tickets
model: Grant McCracken "Meaning Manufacture and Movement in the World of Goods." in Culture and Consumption (Indiana Univeristy Press, 1988): 71-89
- Lori Brodhurst
subject: Christmas ornaments
model: Jean Claude Dupont,"The Meaning of Objects: The Poker." Living in a Material World: Canadian and American Approaches to Material Culture, editor Gerald L. Pocius, 1-18. St. John's, Newfoundland: Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1991.
- Stephen Clark
subject: Masonic chairs
model: E. McClung Flemming, "Artifact Study: A Proposed Model." Winterthur Portfolio 9 (1974): 153-73.
- Adrienne Desjardine
subject: Rave flyers
model: Betsy Cullam-Swan, and Peter K. Manning. "What Is a T-Shirt? Codes, Chorontypes, and Everday Objects." The Socialness of Things: Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects, editor, introduction Stephen Harold Riggins, 415-33. New York: Nouton de Gruyter, 1994.
- Anita Kovacevic subject: Reenaissance maiolica
model: Jules Prown, "Style As Evidence." Winterthur Portfolio 15, no. 3 (1980): 197-210.
- Nicole Mackereth
subject: swimming pools
model: Peirce F. Lewis, "Axioms for Reading the Landscape: Some Guides to the American Scene." Material Culture Studies in America, compiler and editor Thomas J. Schlereth, 174-82. Nashville, Tennessee: The American Association of State and Local History, 1982.
- Mary Jo Megginson
subject: the key
model: Jules Prown, "Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method." Winterthur Portfolio 17, no. 1 (1982): 1-19.
- Jessica Sitnick
subject: Monopoly - the board game
model: Gilborn, Craig. "Pop Pedagogy: Looking at the Coke Bottle." Material Culture Studies in America, compiler and editor Thomas J. Schlereth, (The American Association of State and Local History, 1982): 183-91
- Melissa Zielke
subject: a mourning handkerchief
model: Jacques Maquet,"Objects As Instruments, Objects As Signs." History From Things: Essays on Material Culture, editors Steven Lubar, and Kingery W. David, 30-40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.