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Material culture is the physical evidence of a culture in the objects and architecture they make, or have made. The term tends to be relevant only in archeological and anthropological studies, but it specifically means all material evidence which can be attributed to culture, past or present. Material culture studies is an interdisciplinary field telling of relationships between people and their things: the making, history, preservation, and interpretation of objects. It draws on theory and practice from the social sciences and humanities such as art history, archaeology, anthropology, history, historic preservation, folklore, literary criticism and museum studies, among others. Anything from buildings and architectural elements to books, jewelry, or toothbrushes can be considered material culture.
Usage examples of "material culture".
Yet we are only beginning the march toward destandardization of our material culture.
A population of 4,000 was able to survive for 10,000 years, but with significant cultural losses and significant failures to invent, leaving it with a uniquely simplified material culture.
The invariable subject of stories like these was the invention of civilization and material culture.
Afterward, the Federation engineers and archaeologists had gone crazy over the shuttles, studying them to learn all they could about Fabrini technology and material culture.
They still have stronger general intelligence than any other primate, but their material culture has been reduced dramatically-and they can no longer modify themselves, even if they want to.
And our entire material culture has a somehow anachronistic look in your eyes.
The Darksiders were primitives -- intelligent but mute, with a crude material culture -- and they were forced back gradually into the penumbra, the twilight between the two hemispheres.
Their architecture and other material culture is as bleak as any I have ever encountered.