The H-Net Network on Material Culture and Vernacular Landscapes and Artifact Preservation will promote and support the study of objects, buildings, sites, structures, landscapes and other material cultural productions as part of the visual record of life.

We are currently seeking reviewers for a large backlog of books on material culture! Please consider becoming a reviewer for H-Material Culture by visiting this page and filling out the form to be included in our reviewer database.

We welcome announcements, CFP's, queries, contributions, and discussions of all things material! To add yours, click the orange "Start a Discussion" button above this text. 

If you have an idea for a new on-going feature or a one time resource for the field, let us know. Podcasts? Video tours? Image galleries? Digitization projects?  Let us know what you're thinking.

And we tweet, too! https://twitter.com/H_Mat_Culture

Recent Announcements and other activity appear below. All CFP's posted to the site can be found in the links on the right, as can Jobs in Material Culture Studies.

Recent Announcements

Discussion published by Jennifer Black on Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Job guide digest, 26 Aug edition

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
17 August 2020 to 24 August 2020.  These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Material-Culture.  See the H-Net Job Guide website at
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information.  To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.


Discussion published by Jennifer Black on Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Seeking book reviewers for H-Material Culture

Are you interested in reviewing books for H-Material Culture? Do you work on maps? book history? popular culture? collectibles? military culture? immigration history? the history of design? visual culture or art history? childhood studies? death and dying? anthropology? sociology? American history? Global history?  

Discussion published by Jennifer Black on Friday, August 7, 2020

Job guide digest for H-Material culture, 7 Aug edition

These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Material-Culture.  See the H-Net Job Guide website at
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information.  To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.



ANCIENT HISTORY

University of Freiburg - Postdoctoral Researcher (4.5 years, salary

Discussion published by Nikolaos Vryzidis on Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Publication: The Hidden Life of Textiles in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean

Dear colleagues, 

I am pleased to announce the publication by Brepols of the edited volume of essays The Hidden Life of Textiles in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean. The book contains published papers of the conference 'Textiles & Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean: Paradigms of Contexts and Cross-Cultural Exchanges' of the British School at Athens, held at the (Benaki) Museum of Islamic Art in 2016, as well as some new contributions.  

Discussion published by Jennifer Black on Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Job Guide digest, 14 July edition

These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Material-Culture.  See the H-Net Job Guide website at
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information.  To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Aarhus University, The School of Culture and Society, Department of

Discussion published by System Administrator on Tuesday, July 14, 2020

FEATURED JOB: Postdoc Researcher: Global History of Material Culture and Technology, 1850-2000, Darmstadt University of Technology

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Type: 
Home Office Notices (Jobs, Reviews)
Subject Fields: 
Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies, East Asian History / Studies,
Discussion published by Jennifer Black on Wednesday, July 1, 2020

New Book-- "Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century: Consuming Commemoration"

Dear readers of H-Material Culture, 

I'd like to draw your attention to a new book, out this month from Palgrave: 

Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century: Consuming Commemoration
Editors: Grenier, Katherine Haldane; Mushal, Amanda 

From the publisher's website: 

Recent Discussions

Discussion published by Jack Christensen on Monday, February 3, 2020

Wampanoag Archaeology (resources needed)

I am an AmeriCorps service member and currently work at an environmental nonprofit in southeastern Massachusetts. As part of my service work, I am collaborating with local Wampanoag groups so as to infuse the nonprofit's conservation mission with indigenous knowledge. One of the groups I'm working with, called the Indigenous Resources Collaborative (IRC), is embarking on an endeavor that involves correlating historical Wampanoag cultural artifacts they have in their possession (for use in an educational exhibit) with native archaeological sites in Massachusetts.

Discussion published by Linda Levitt on Monday, February 4, 2019

Snow Globes: From Art to Kitsch

Snow globes are childhood’s wintery dreamlands, so powerful an allegory that they appear in films, television series, and commercials to carry spectators into a holiday happily-ever-after. During the holiday season, should a snow globe not be readily available from a nearby toy chest or shelf, you can download a snowglobe app for both iPhone and Android, transforming your quotidian emails and social media sites. The ongoing popularity of these iconic pop culture objects, now transformed to the digital realm, gives pause to ask: why snow globes?

Occasional Objects series

The scrolling images to left are from H-Material-Culture's "Occasional Objects" series--a periodic informal examination of objects sent in by our subscribers. View the full collection, read the essays, and add your contribution here in Occasional Objects.

Recent Queries

Discussion published by Jack Christensen on Monday, February 3, 2020

Wampanoag Archaeology (resources needed)

I am an AmeriCorps service member and currently work at an environmental nonprofit in southeastern Massachusetts. As part of my service work, I am collaborating with local Wampanoag groups so as to infuse the nonprofit's conservation mission with indigenous knowledge. One of the groups I'm working with, called the Indigenous Resources Collaborative (IRC), is embarking on an endeavor that involves correlating historical Wampanoag cultural artifacts they have in their possession (for use in an educational exhibit) with native archaeological sites in Massachusetts.