Comments for Archaeology and Material Culture http://paulmullins.wordpress.com The material world, broadly defined Wed, 22 May 2013 14:24:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Commodifying Conception: The Material Culture of Sperm Banks by Quentin http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/commodifying-conception-the-material-culture-of-sperm-banks/#comment-851 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:24:30 +0000 http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/?p=1188#comment-851 Just got around to reading this, and it is absolute gold. What an interesting window into social life, consumer expectations, and subjectivity!

]]> Comment on The Faces of Otzi: Imagining the Dead by Susan R. Boettcher http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/the-faces-of-otzi-imagining-the-dead/#comment-840 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:54:01 +0000 http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/?p=1293#comment-840 Thanks.

]]> Comment on The Faces of Otzi: Imagining the Dead by Paul Mullins http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/the-faces-of-otzi-imagining-the-dead/#comment-839 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:35:19 +0000 http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/?p=1293#comment-839 That is a wonderful piece, thanks

]]> Comment on The Faces of Otzi: Imagining the Dead by Susan R. Boettcher http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/the-faces-of-otzi-imagining-the-dead/#comment-837 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:57:41 +0000 http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/?p=1293#comment-837 I wrote about some similar themes w/r/t Heinrich IV in 2007:

http://www.h-net.org/~german/reviews/boettcherfeb07.htm

]]> Comment on The Faces of Otzi: Imagining the Dead by bgallegos http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/the-faces-of-otzi-imagining-the-dead/#comment-836 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:08:52 +0000 http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/?p=1293#comment-836 Good report!

]]> Comment on Bourgeois Brew: The Landscapes of Craft Brewing by Sugar Bowl: Week of 5/18/13 | Discharmed http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/bourgeois-brew-the-landscapes-of-craft-brewing/#comment-834 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:52:17 +0000 http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/?p=1271#comment-834 […] not a fan of beer, but learning about your local breweries and what your region is known for regarding alcohol seems like a nifty way to learn more about your […]

]]> Comment on Bourgeois Brew: The Landscapes of Craft Brewing by Paul Mullins http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/bourgeois-brew-the-landscapes-of-craft-brewing/#comment-820 Wed, 15 May 2013 18:56:56 +0000 http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/?p=1271#comment-820 Actually Rebecca introduced the “tied houses” to me in her TAG paper. Normally I would be a little more thorough about citations, but I was keen to post a little something during Craft Beer week and the subject had been in my head while thinking about Wicker Park. Thanks for the references to the French term origins, I’ll look them over.

]]> Comment on Bourgeois Brew: The Landscapes of Craft Brewing by Michael Dietler http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/bourgeois-brew-the-landscapes-of-craft-brewing/#comment-819 Wed, 15 May 2013 18:47:47 +0000 http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/?p=1271#comment-819 Hi Paul. Very interesting reflections on the urban brewscape. Just a couple of points to add: (1) David Brooks actually borrowed the “Bourgeois Bohemian” (aka “BoBo”) terminology from France, where it has been a common concept for many years (along with the colorful “Gauche caviar” and “Bon chic bon genre”–aka “BCBG”); (2) A discussion of Prohibition and the reuse of vanished breweries of Chicago was covered beautifully in a paper at the Chicago TAG conference by the historical archaeologist Rebecca Graff, in a paper entitled “Remembrances of Beers Past: Chicago and the Relics of Prohibition”–look for the publication soon. Slainte!

]]> Comment on Consuming Marginality: An Archaeology of Hipster Materiality by Todd Lemmon http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/consuming-marginality-an-archaeology-of-hipster-materiality/#comment-814 Tue, 14 May 2013 20:14:00 +0000 http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/?p=1253#comment-814 This is interesting to me from a “community” standpoint, too. How are we bound and why? What are the controlling “vectors of these groups however we define them? I.e., what things are sine qua nons? Is it politics? A certain POV on how livestock is raised? Taste in music? How flexible are the bounds of any one group? And what beliefs or behaviors cast someone out of that group?

]]> Comment on Consuming Marginality: An Archaeology of Hipster Materiality by Paul Mullins http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/consuming-marginality-an-archaeology-of-hipster-materiality/#comment-811 Tue, 14 May 2013 16:45:59 +0000 http://paulmullins.wordpress.com/?p=1253#comment-811 I don’t really object to labeling faux marginality, and in fact I agree that much of the contrived outsider status of many contemporary social groups awkwardly conceals wealth and racial privilege. I agree that contemporary hipsters remain oblivious to the heritage of this term or for that matter nearly all historical dimensions of style. But I do think that mass culture named a consumer phenomenon “hipster” in ways that try to manage that demographic and ensure continued consumption; the degree to which hipsters (or any other group) express, on the one hand, some authentic style and, on the other hand, the ideological meanings handed them by mass marketers is ambiguous. I think I can have some sympathy to hipsters’ sense of distinction without accepting that anybody wearing Rapha can be anything but affluent. I do think there is some social movement to be named with some clear material dimensions and patterns, and I certainly think most of us can see it in places like Bucktown, but I also think it hopes to outrun marketers’ efforts to name them and manage their materiality.

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