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 Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Seeking new editors!

Hello colleagues,

H-Material Culture seeks enthusiastic scholars, and those interested in material culture, to serve on its editorial team.  In particular, we seek additional editors to fill the following roles: 

Discussion published by System Administrator on Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Relevant reviews posted to the H-Net Commons 13 Dec 2021 - 20 Dec 2021

Your network editor has reposted this from H-Announce. The byline reflects the original authorship.

Type: 
Home Office Notices (Jobs, Reviews)
Subject Fields: 
African History / Studies, Asian History / Studies, Environmental History / Studies, European History /
Discussion published by Nikolaos Vryzidis on Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Special Issue of Cahiers Balkaniques on Byzantine Embroidery

Special Issue of Cahiers Balkaniques:

L’évolution de la broderie de tradition byzantine en Méditerranée orientale et dans le monde slave (1200-1800)

The Evolution of the Byzantine Embroidery Tradition in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Slavic World, 1200-1800

guest editors: Elena Papastavrou, Marielle Martiniani-Reber, editor: Joëlle Dalègre

Discussion published by Jennifer Black on Wednesday, December 15, 2021

H-Net job guide digest for H-Material Culture, 15 Dec edition

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
 6 December 2021 to 13 December 2021.  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
https://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

Discussion published by Adam Goodheart on Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Hodson Trust - John Carter Brown Fellowship (four months, $20,000 + housing)

The Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and the John Carter Brown Library invite applications for the Hodson Trust - John Carter Brown Fellowship, a unique research and writing fellowship. The Hodson Trust - John Carter Brown Fellowship supports work by academics, independent scholars and writers working on significant projects relating to the literature, history, culture, or art of the Americas before 1830. Candidates with a U.S.

Recent Discussions

Discussion published by Jason Baird on Monday, February 15, 2016

Re: Material Culture Podcasts

Dr. Jon Kay--Director of Traditional Arts Indiana and Curator of Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures has been active in producing material culture podcasts. His series Artisan Ancestors has 40 episodes (so far) on a wide range of material culture topics. It can be found in iTunes and at the Internet Archive. He has recently begun hosting the Mathers Museum of World Culture's own podcast series Conversations on Culture. With students associated with Traditional Arts Indiana he has also produced a foodways podcast called Second-Servings.

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 sophie white on Wednesday, August 11, 2021

'Gender & Material Culture' Graduate Syllabus: suggestions?

Hi, I'm teaching a new Graduate interdisciplinary seminar on "Gender & Material Culture" (keen to keep it open in terms of time/place as it will have a range of students), I would appreciate any suggestions for readings and approaches that have worked well, esp. in terms of methodology but also case-studies. Thanks!

Sophie White, Professor of American Studies, University of Notre Dame