The material culture of the modern world

• Mary C. Beaudry ^[1] ; Natascha Mehler ^[2]
  1. [1] Boston University

     Boston University

     City of Boston, Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Schifffahrtsgeschichte, Germany
• Localización: Post-medieval archaeology, ISSN 0079-4236, Vol. 50, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 108-120
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • La cultura material del mundo moderno
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• Resumen

  • We discuss results of a content analysis of material culture articles in Post-Medieval Archaeology in the context of the development of historical archaeology as a discipline. We conclude that the journal remains an important outlet for detailed field reports, but in recent years, influenced by social and anthropological theories, the discipline has matured and articles have changed from antiquarian artefact presentations to contextualized material culture studies. Expansion of the journal’s temporal frame to include the recent past has so far had little effect, but the journal has benefited from the broadened international range of articles and the intellectual and theoretical backgrounds they convey.