Above class meets 1st eight weeks only

This course will explore a variety of concerns in the contemporary
study of material culture in archaeology.  These will include issues
such as the ways in which objects are used to construct cultural,
ethnic, and gender identities, the tensions in the relationship of
commodities and objects classified as art,  and the social life of
things as they move from one context to another. This course is a
graduate seminar and collaborates with Anthropology E600 Theories of
Material Culture.