1) Thanks to Bess and Janneken et al for this idea. This seems like an excellent forum to complement the social networking we're all fretting over now that casual friends from the past know they can "poke" us on Facebook.
2) I wonder if we might collaborate here to define Material Culture as a method of inquiry based on our multi-disciplinary experience of "Material Culture" training. It seems many of us (faculty included) are still defining exactly what we mean when we use the term. Supposing we can stitch together a working definition and some citations, links, etc., we might then move the info over to Wikipedia, which, as Paul Hyde noted, has no entry for MC.
To get the ball rolling: According to the Laramie in Layers page for What is Material Culture, "Material culture is a method used by many different disciplines and as such the definitions of it can vary." Agree or disagree? Does the definition really vary across disciplines, or just the application of it?
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