This article surveys the state of the field of material culture within the discipline of history. The study of material culture – the myriad layers of cultural meaning embedded within objects – has been adopted by historians from colleagues in anthropology, archaeology and museum studies, and continues to thrive as an interdisciplinary field in tandem with art history and literary studies. As inventive digital and embodied methodologies within material culture begin to shape the future of the field, this article takes the opportunity to reflect upon the opportunities and impediments presented to scholars of material culture. It elucidates the diverse and often unfamiliar vernaculars of material objects, and reflects upon future directions in the study of material culture.

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领域现状：物质文化

本文考察了历史学科内物质文化领域的状况。对物质文化的研究——嵌入物体中的无数层文化意义——已被人类学、考古学和博物馆研究领域的历史学家所采用，并继续作为与艺术史和文学研究相结合的跨学科领域蓬勃发展。随着物质文化中创造性的数字和具身方法开始塑造该领域的未来，本文借此机会反思物质文化学者面临的机遇和障碍。它阐明了物质对象的多样且通常不熟悉的方言，并反思了物质文化研究的未来方向。