material culture
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmaterialandculture
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material
adjective
uk/məˈtɪə.ri.əl/us/məˈtɪr.i.əl/
relating to physical objects or money rather than emotions or the ...
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culture
noun
uk/ˈkʌl.tʃər/us/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ/
the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a ...
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(Definition ofmaterialandculturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmaterial culture
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Still, his response suggests how thematerialcultureof law enforcement addressed a widespread unease over police procedures.
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Her training inmaterialcultureprovides a distinctively different vantage point from which to analyze the much researched subject of veiling.
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Archaeologists committed to the centrality ofmaterialcultureare likely to assent to this position.
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However, this image is undercut by heterogeneity inmaterialcultureand the expression of identity.
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So, display is not simply a representation of theory (eg, ofmaterialculture, of knowledge, of the world), but a literal embodiment of its development.
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The patterning ofmaterialcultureat these three scales can be related to two main aspects of changing social structure, noted above.
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The circuit of culture provides a template for integrating ethnographic data with analyses ofmaterialculture.
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Let us now draw another contrast, this time between the study ofmaterialcultureand the study of human life.
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In anthropology, the specialisms you mentioned do already have their own place: as cultural ecology, the interpretation ofmaterialcultureand the study of societies.
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Can we conclude from the supposition thatmaterialcultureis part of a world that its part can be explained in terms of its meaning?
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Materialcultureformed both the cues prompting appropriate action, and the resources drawn on in those actions.
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Materialcultureis not a product of a past social world, it is a part of that world which intrudes into the present.
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Archaeologists working as historiographers rather than analysts ofmaterialculturedo not always produce deep insight.
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The pits contain assemblages ofmaterialculturethat are exceptionally rich for the region.
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On the other hand,materialculturecan also be considered to be an essential element of societies which influences other non-material aspects of society.
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Materialculture, by definition, belongs both to the ethereal realm of culture and to the material world.
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Materialculturefor him represented a reflection of shared norms held in the individual minds of past people.
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Thus, the study of sacred places and theirmaterialcultureprovides us insight into the mythical ordering of the integral landscape in the past.
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Such 'fuzziness' is characteristic of investigating gender throughmaterialculture, with its 'multiple plausible scenarios'.
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