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Transcript of Book Reviews Due Today!
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
Book Reviews Due Today!
They will be collected at the end of class ONLY.
Please take a seat and quietly listen to the lecture, or wait outside.
Do not disturb or be disrespectful to other students in the class.
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
Unit 7 Quiz
Must be completed by midnight Friday.
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
Unit 8: Ideology and Worldview
Lecture 1
Ideology and Practice: The Archaeology of Habitus
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
Humans face common problems that require rationalization:
Individual Needs:To explain how
world worksFor sense of control
in face of crisisTo cope with death
and fate of human psyche
Societal Needs:To create consensus
about right and wrong
To validate transitions in personal and communal life
To legitimize social institutions
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
structures of the mind culturally-constructed; shared and learned in
social contextsinfluences how we perceive and act in the
material world of our experience
Ideology: broad set of rationalizations for common human problems and experiences.
Religion: ideology that deals with understanding the relationship between humans and the supernatural.
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
Pierre Bourdieu (1977) A Theory of Practice
Habitus: our internalized, embodied view of how the world works and how things should be done.
Constituted in practice; in how we go about our daily lives; in how we experience the world.
Manifested materially Continually reproduced or transformed
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
Archaeological Case Study: James Deetz (1977)
In Small Things Forgotten
Argument: between 1607 and 1760 English colonists experienced major transformation in how they conceived, ordered and lived in the world. This change left distinct imprint on their material surroundings.
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
Example: Domestic Architecture
“People are conceived, are born, and die in houses…The form of a house
can be a strong reflection of the needs and the minds of those who built it; in addition, it shapes and directs their
behavior.” (Deetz 1977)
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
The Anglo-American Worldview Medieval Mindset
17th-early 18th c.Group oriented,
corporate, organic, vernacular
Early 17th. Century “longhouses” from Plymouth Colony in NE
Reconstructed “Earthfast” houses at Jamestown, VA
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
“A Gothic building evolved…It was not planned…it just grew.” (Hugh Morrison)
Typical English “Hall and Parlor” Plan
Fairbanks House, Dedham, MA. Built 1637. Typical Hall and Parlor Plan, showing organic growth through time
Bacon’s Castle, VA. Built 1665. “Jacobean-style” w/ Flemish gables and more vernacular, organic, cross-shaped plan.
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
The Anglo-American Worldview Georgian Order
Mid 18th c.Focus on individual,
formal, orderly, more academic, popular
Shirley Plantation, VA. Built ca. 1738
Typical Georgian house plan w/ central hall and more specialized use of space.
Judith dug here!
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
Georgian architecture is orderly, Georgian architecture is orderly, planned, and based on popular, academic planned, and based on popular, academic principles of designprinciples of design
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4 4
Classic 3-4-5 proportions of Shirley Plantation mansion and flanking dependencies.
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
The Georgian worldview emphasizes The Georgian worldview emphasizes form over functionform over function
Balance and Order
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
The Georgian worldview places more The Georgian worldview places more emphasis on the individualemphasis on the individual
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
Transformation of Medieval Wordview Transformation of Medieval Wordview to Georgian Worldviewto Georgian Worldview
Result of economic expansion of mercantile capitalism in Anglo-America
Rise of literate, secular, middle classArtificial means to impose balance and
order on increasingly uncertain social and material world
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
Building on Deetz’ Model
Mark Leone (1980s) Historic Anapolis, MDCritiqued Deetz for not taking into account
issues of POWER AND AGENCYInternal contradictions: Rich/Poor;
Free/Slave; British/AmericanThreats to economic and political stability
of new American middle class
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
William Paca’s Garden, Anapolis Ostentatious displays of Power and Wealth Symmetry and Order demonstrate control over
nature
Reconstructed plan of garden of 18th. century land owner, William Paca, in Annapolis, MD
Georgian style formal garden in VA
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
Ordering Nature = Naturalizing OrderOrdering Nature = Naturalizing Order
Discursive acts designed to stabilize and assert individual prosperity and power--not just a material reflection of it.
Mark Leone and his colleagues were concerned to show how Paca’s power “was placed in law and nature…in practicing law and gardening.”
Judith Habicht-Mauche, UCSC, Spring 2005
How we will collect the Book Reviews….
The TAs will place signs on the front of the stage w/ the title of each book.
Exit your row to the right, walk down the side aisle to the front, forming a single line.
Place your paper in the proper pile.Exit up the left-hand aisle.