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Essay On Material Culture

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Material Culture and Identities
Material culture can also create and enhance identities. First, the link between identity, material culture and tourism will be explored. An example of how material culture creates identity is shown in the Iban of Sarawak from Malaysia. Identity is what distinguishes, unifies and separates one group of people from another. Items of material culture are powerful in identity formation. Cultural identities are constructed and presented by those who promote tourism and seek to attract tourist revenue. Anthropologists have argued that touristic cultures can make identities impaired or even destroyed because tourism generates change in other cultures. Others have said that tourism has beneficial cultural effects as …show more content…

We can find coherence and unity in social identities by looking at material culture variations and why differences and similarities between groups are as they are. Quakerism was big in the 1650s and 1660s and it still exists today but is only a small group of people. This group is best known for its abolitionist efforts and peace activism. People of Quakerism believed that simplicity and modesty, pacifism, equality among people, and a strong sense of community and morality were very important. People of Quakerism also restricted themselves to only the necessities and enjoyed plainness which was shown in their material artifacts. They had a lot of variation. Written records of their intentions were left behind and the complexity of what they say in how to live a simple life makes Quakerism great for informing us about social identity in general. (Chenoweth 2009:320-322). Quakerism can help us understand questions like how do groups relate to things and how do certain material cultures relate to a certain social group? They had many traits that separated them from other communities and this brought them closer together with a feeling of unity. They had a lot of variation in order to separate themselves from other societies and were still seen as unified even through a varied material culture (Chenoweth

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