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单词 material culture
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material culture in American English

noun
Sociology
the aggregate of physical objects or artifacts used by a society
Compare nonmaterial culture
Word origin
[1925–30]

Examples of 'material culture' in a sentence
material culture

Sachphilologie - the philology of material culture - found new and glamorous science in archaeology.
The Times Literary Supplement
Ashbee also wrote scholarly articles on art history and 19th and 20th-century material culture.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The book should attract historians of science now turning to the political economy and material culture of science.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
Perkins's earlier fiction (stories of antipodean youth and material culture) was both celebratory and satirical, scathing but full of bounce.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Design is integral to human existence; it has shaped our material culture and influenced human history since its origins.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It makes lively use of drama, but is patchier in its attention to material culture.
The Times Literary Supplement
The discussion of what objects were thought to do illuminates the power of material culture in medieval life.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
Apes, he tells us, are not without material culture: chimps can make basic fishing tools, for example.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
His work is edgy, and a certain metaphor for how we take our material culture.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
This focus on material culture helps recover voices that are silent or distorted in the documentary record.
The Times Literary Supplement
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