Carroll, T; Walford, A; Walton, S; (2020) Introduction. In: Carroll, T and Walford, A and Walton, S, (eds.) Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies: Perspectives from UCL Anthropology. (pp. 1-16). Routledge: London, UK.

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Abstract

In establishing the Journal of Material Culture in 1996, the editors opened the first issue with an editorial that made the case that material culture studies is an undisciplined field of study. In framing it in this manner, they highlighted the intellectual freedom gained by drawing from multiple disciplinary insights and methodological approaches. In the 1990s, the research group was expanded, incorporating more of an archaeological influence from Cambridge, with the addition of Chris Tilley and Victor Buchli – both students of Ian Hodder. Within the anthropological attention to material culture, there has always been the critical issue of temporality as it is inscribed in the object. As Pinney reminds people, the Durkheimian tradition approaches objects as a historical record of society. Despite the many moves beyond representation, aesthetics, language, and semiotics, this chapter highlights a need to maintain these analytical registers in exploring material cultural phenomena.

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