This document contains notes from a class discussing material culture and movement. It lists potential project ideas like using a shipping container as an office or garden gnome. It also discusses concepts like kitsch, descriptive language used in projects, and how material culture can reveal issues like integration, assimilation and individuals' agency. The document appears to be brainstorming notes for an assignment on analyzing objects and their relationship to social and historical contexts.

1. SOCI/ANTH 441 Material Culture Meeting 4: Movement September 30, 2010

2. Project

3. Project Ideas Shipping container as office Call button in plane Garden Gnome Squeegee Nametag Lenin'sbrain Reusablegrocery bag

4. Otherideas Velvet Elvis OLPC Bubblewrap Construction hard hat Opus card Handicap dooropener Stethoscope Hand grinder Labcoat Touchscreen Chopsticks Spray can Mysteryobject Round tuit Payphone Badge

5. Miller

6. Spot the object Certificates Materialevidence Defined by absence Homes Pascali Sedentary Final home Connection to graveyardlore Food Identity

7. Mobile phones Ingenuity Social conditions Networking Informaleconomy

8. Kitsch Taste Telling off Embedded judgment Jackson

9. Descriptive language Journalistic Cinematographic FIFEQ Literary Biswas

10. Living history Similar to oral but "whatwordscan't tell" Show reliance on words or behaviour Individuals Plight Integration, assimilation Agency Not realizing (saved by social scientist) Sociology/anthropology