“Interior revolutions: a biography of living rooms in urban Cuba”
Anna Cristina Pertierra
“Commode Culture: Material Cosmologies in Slovakia”
Nicolette Makovicky
“Hide and Seek: Madrilenians' Tidy Houses and 'Tidy' Memory”
Marjorie Murray
“Architecture and ontology: the unorthogenesis of 'Traveller-specific' architectures”
Anna Hoare
“In and out of the wardrobe: hidden and revealed fantasies”
Sophie Woodward
“Living with Loss: The Materiality of Family in Jamaican Returnee Homes”
Heather Horst
“Home Decoration in the context of Loss”
Fiona Parrott
The forum will examine various aspects of research in the field of Material Culture as presented by current and former Graduate Students of the Anthropology Department at the University College London, in collaboration with UCL Material Culture Professor Daniel Miller. “Material Culture is the study of human, social, cultural and environmental relationships as these forms are revealed in the material world of objects. It is about the social life of things — land, ornaments, tools, housing and Coca-Cola cans — in different cultural settings.”
(http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/matcult/matcult_home.htm)