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The course serves as an introduction to material culture studies, presented as interdisciplinary field of social research devoted to the study of dynamic cultural phenomena in social contexts. Main emphasis is put to anthropological and ethnographical approaches which are, after reevalution of "linguistic turn", in last decades more and more influenced by "material turn", and connected theoretical and methodological innovations. Main purpose of the course is to present theoretical and methodological apparatus for analysis of artefacts and material objects, especially in contemporary complex societies. The course also presents related concepts of materiality in fields of European Ethnology, Folkloristics and Cultural History, including short overview of analytical approaches to artefacts in ethnographical, antiquarian and museological discourses. Presentation of these primarily historical and descriptive tendencies is seen as stepping stone to contemporary contextual and interdisciplinary approaches to materiality. Seminar part of the course is devoted to readings of the key texts which define changes of paradigms of material culture studies, and introduction to the methodology and techniques of field research of material culture, including its ethical level.
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