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Anthropology A460, Modern Material Culture
During the semester each student will lead class discussion of one of the course readings. You will be expected to summarize the reading--which all class members will have read prior to class--, assess its persuasiveness and insights (or, conversely, its unconvincing and mundane arguments), and suggest how the reading adds to our understanding of the modern material world. You will be required to provide me an outline of your presentation on the night you present your reading.
If you did not sign up for a reading you were assigned one at random. There are more students than readings this semester, so some readings include two presenters. You can coordinate with that person if you like, or you can plan to take turns: in either case, you need a written outline to turn in when the reading is presented.
Make sure you know when you're slated to present. The space directly above each reading's title indicates the person who has volunteered for (or been assigned to present) that specific reading.
Email paulmull@iupui.edu with any questions.
January 27
OPEN
Vinyl Leaves, Culture and Context, pp.21-33.
Katie Wanzer
Rubbish, Chapter 1, Yes, Wonderful Things.
February 3
Stefanie Anderson & Lauran Barnes
The Mark of Shame, in Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy, pp.174-213. University of Texas, Austin.
Megan Ward
Rubbish, Chapter 3, What We Say, What We Do.
February 10
Kristen Uehlein
Rubbish, Chapter 6, A Garbage Census?
Laura Miller & Beth Duncan
Shanks and Tilley, Social values, social constraints and material culture: the design of contemporary beer cans. In Re-Constructing Archaeology, pp.172-239. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
February 17
Lisa Bennett
Vinyl Leaves, Chapter 11, Utopia and Urban Planning.
February 24
Deanna Tratensek
Vinyl Leaves, Chapter 3, America and Consumption.
Janine Hafer
Vinyl Leaves, Chapter 15, Consumption and Culture Theory.
March 3
Cathy Hamaker
Vinyl Leaves, Chapter 13, Cinema, Music, Fantasy.
Melissa Hermesch
Vinyl Leaves, Chapter 16, Nature's "Gifts": Land, Garden Sea.
March 10
Laura Woods & William Fogelson
Linenthal, The Boundaries of Memory: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. American Quarterly 46(3):406-433.
Kristine Haskett
Vinyl Leaves, Chapter 12, Kungaloosh!: The Theme Park World.
March 24
Courtney DeBaun
Vinyl Leaves, Chapter 8, Marketing the Magic Mall
March 31
Jamie Olmsted
Vinyl Leaves, Chapter 4, Disney: Disney History at the Magic Kingdom.
Adam York
Wallace, Mickey Mouse History: Portraying the Past at Disney World. Radical History Review 32:33-57.
April 14
Shannon Petro & Melissa Bault
Pearson and Mullins, Domesticating Barbie: An Archaeology of Barbie Material Culture and Domestic Ideology. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 3(4):225-259.
April 21
Carolyn Marrow & Nathan McCain
Ingersoll, Divining the Future: The Toys of Star Wars. In The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology: Essays in Honor of James Deetz, edited by Anne Elizabeth Yentsch and Mary C. Beaudry, pp.427-443. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
April 28
Lucy Snyder & Jessey Mason
Ewen, Form Follows Waste. In All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture, pp.233-258. Basic Books, New York.
Ryan Teverbaugh
Rubbish, Chapter 5, The Myths of Biodegradation.
Required Books
Fjellman, Stephen M.
1992 Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America. Westview, Boulder, Colorado.
Rathje, William and Cullen Murphy
2001 Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage. 2nd edition. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
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Last updated January 23, 2003