Material Culture Online Project
Material Culture Handout.doc
Material culture is a tricky, but also very interesting subject for historians. How do we know what these images meant to people who had such different experiences then we do? How do we know what we think is important or interesting is what they found to be so? How do we know how widespread or convincing these images were? Through research and analysis we can make educated observations and gain a greater understanding of the past and its people. We must think about the Context in which the images have been produced, who the target Audience is and the Agenda of the producer -how, when, where would people have encountered this cultural artifact?
Thus, you need to ask yourself
What is this meant to express/sell/convince/evoke? To Who? What is this assuming about the audience? Why is it appealing to that specific audience? What does this tell us about the understandings, beliefs, contestations of the this time period. Now, with these images in mind
Lets Begin!
Go to www.geocities.com/kris_durocher
and follow the directions from there.
A list of the websites used to create the material culture page.
websites used in MC project.doc
A handout of the assignment.
MCAssignment.doc
The project evaluation handout.
GKmaterialcultureEvaluations.doc
