Research Clusters
Materiality, Art and Religion
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This cluster focuses on new theoretical approaches to how the
material world is constitutive of social realities, rather than
simply reflecting them. Our focus on Materiality incorporates the
concepts of 'habitus' in regard to daily practice in the built
environment, as well as ideas of the 'extended artefact', and
engagement theory. We also investigate the inter-relatedness of
ethnicity, age, gender, ideology, and religion in the material
expression of identity; the constitution of power relations
through objects; the thinking and practice of artists and
archaeologists in their engagement with the material world; the
origins and development of behaviours fundamental to ritual and
religious belief.
Researchers and scholars involved with the Materiality, Art and Religion cluster include:
- Dr Bettina Bader
- Dr Dusan Boric
- Dr Camilla Briault
- Dr Gilly Carr
- Craig Cessford
- Dr Elizabeth DeMarrais
- Dr Helen Geake
- Dr Catherine Hills
- Dr Lila Janik
- Dr Sam Lucy
- Dr Lambros Malafouris
- Dr Augusta McMahon
- Dr Cameron Petrie
- Prof. Lord Renfrew
- Dr John Robb
- Dr Marie-Louise Stig Sørensen
- Dr Kate Spence
- Dr Simon Stoddart
- Dr Marc Vander Linden
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- Cambridge Archaeological Unit
- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies
- Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
- Faculty of Classics
- Continuing Education
- Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
- Earth Sciences
- Plant Sciences
- Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group
- Unit for Landscape Modelling