1. SOCI/ANTH 441 Material Culture Meeting 3, September 23, 2010

2. Naji/Douny

3. Unpacking Working with text Did last week Take apart Decompression

4. Imagined readership? Anglophone anthropology "Look, over here, we're doing interesting stuff" Taken seriously Very concrete and very abstract Sociological audience?

5. Phenomenology Connection with Dant Much deeper From surface to depth

6. Academic culture Do homework Publish or perish Collaboration Special issue European approaches UCL, Marseille, Paris

7. Typical French approach Density Sentence construction "Unmaking" "Foucauldian" as passing reference to Foucault

8. Delve in definition Cosmology Containment performativity

9. Basic definitions technique technology Human action

10. Anglophone practice Strings of citation Buzzwords Address material culture classics

11. References Almost review article Case studies

12. FTAT List of scholars Links between them History of ideas Research groups Classic texts Current research

13. Material culture classics Affordances Sociality of Leroi-Gourhan Bourdieu'shabitus not enough space for agency and social change Merleau-Ponty Body and materiality Address "literature of" From creating and using to norms and practices

14. Unmaking and Decay Douny on trash World without us http://www.worldwithoutus.com/ Entropy and chaos Object's life cycle

15. Discover blog on body perception Failing to appreciate doors, and other mysteries of brain space http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/09/22/failing-to-appreciate-doors-and-other-mysteries-of-brain-space/

16. Sensory Approaches Sensory integration in anthropology http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/05/27/children-integrating-their-senses/ Ashley Montagu on touch Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin occupational therapy and sensory stimulation Jean Ayres Sensory Integration and the Child

17. CoP (Eckert) http://www.stanford.edu/~eckert/csofp.html

18. Project

20. 20% of the final grade

21. Maximum 4000 words (about 8 pages)

22. Assignment

23. Describething

24. “Justify”

25. Embed in social study

27. Sensory (Whatdoesit look/feel/smelllike?)

28. Construction (Whatisit made of?)

29. Function (Whatdoesit do? Whatisitused for?)

30. History/genealogy/origin (Wheredidit come from?)

31. Ecology/situatedness (How doesit relate to people and otherobjects?)

33. Is it important?

34. Whoisit important for? (Individuals, groups, societies)

36. Approaches

38. Resources

39. Primary sources

40. Secondary sources

42. A) What the "thing" is. Whatkind of objectisit? Whatdoesit look like? Whatdoesit do? Whatisitused for? This shouldinclude a description of: The history or genealogy of yourthing - an origin story; wheredidyourthing come from? The situatedness or familial relations of yourthing - a relationship story; how doesyourthing relate to people and otherobjects? Describe the social ecology of yourthing.

43. B) The significance of your "thing." Is thisobject important? Why? Whoisit important for? Whatdoesitmean?

44. C) A template for makingsense of your “thing.” Choose 1 or 2 articles from the course as a model for yourproject. Describe how youthinkyourstudywillconform or deviatefrom the model(s) youdescribe.

45. D) How willyoustudyyour “thing”? Describe the resourcesyouwill use to help completeyourproject; describeprimary sources, secondary sources, researchmethodologies, etc.

46. Alex and the Moka Pots

47. Moka Pots Schnapptopic ThroughMyron Joshua Approachingobject Amongfavouriteobjects Livedwiththem

50. Homeliness

51. Familiarity

52. Ritual

53. Culinary

54. Europeanness

55. Nostalgic

57. Expertise

58. Influence

59. Unusual in context

60. “Sophisticatedyet simple”

61. CoffeeGeek

63. Hard to replace

64. Coffee smelling

66. Light

67. Sturdy

68. Inexpensive

69. Durable

70. “Low Tech”

72. Stainlesssteel versions

74. Sizes (in “demitasse” cups)

75. Material

76. Design

77. Brands

79. “Instructions” (put water in...)

80. Internalworking (steam pressure…)

81. Maintenance

82. Proper “Seasoning”

84. Not the right amount of pressure

85. No need for baristaexperience

86. Simplertechnology

87. No crema

88. Different taste

90. Top-hatwidget

91. Bialetti patent

92. Crema-likeemulsion

93. Tastes more likeespresso

94. CoffeeGeek forum

95. Myron Joshua