Volume 2, Issue 1. 2024

Cover Image: Nelson Figure 1:Stamnos (jar) with group of female athletes bathing, attributed to the Group of Polygnotos, c. 440-430 BCE, Classical Period. Ceramic, red-figure, 41 x 31.5 cm (16 1/8 x 12 3/8 in.). On view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gallery 212A-B. Accession Number: 95.21..

More Articles:

Material Matters

What is Material Culture?

Front Matter:

Editorial Note.

Christine Staton

Feature Essays:

All the Yarns of Uttu: Fringed Bodies and Textiles of Third Millennium BC Mesopotamia

Elizabeth Clancy

Material Culture and Context: Interrogating the Cultural Attribution of a Red-Figure Stamnos at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Rachael Nelson

Research on the Rise:

Teaching Material Culture Online: Imperatives, Challenges, and New Direction

Mary Bedell

Reconstructing Monpe’s Material Legacy: Meanings and Memories in Wartime Workwear

Emma Donnington-Kiey

Reviews:

The Event of a Thread: Weaving at Black Mountain College

Anastatia Spicer

Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet Exhibition Review

Elana Neher