Assemblage

Defining assemblage
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Connections to material culture
Pravina Shukla

Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India

We tend to think about material culture in one frame of reference - but we don't have to!


 * Conclusion

All of human life is bound up with material culture.... not everyone uses all objects, but think about food, clothing, architecture

Naturalizing cultural practices (part of habitus) until they fall below awareness

Common things, ubiquitous things, creative lives of wives in India

Aesthetic framework, communicative frames

Placing things in contexts, frames

Producer -- mediator -- user

Curation

How has my understanding of assemblage changed since the beginning of the class?
Think about my daily actions, perception of others, messages I try to send with my dress

"sartorial birth control"

Having an audience ... the audience/performer effect produces evaluations

Boundaries in other places

Museological impulse to collect, exhibit, perform in social life!

"Looking glass self"

Folktropes
Ordinary people

Everyday life

Compensatory moves

Me-search

Style