Alexandra Antohin offers a set of reflections on her training in visual and material culture at University College London and how that facilitated insights regarding her ethnographic study of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
9:00 AM
David Morgan, Divination, Economy of Belief, Embodiment, Emplacement, Emplotment, Faces, Lived Religion, Material Religion, Materiality, Materiality and Communication, Memorialization, Places
David Morgan of Duke University comments on the entanglement of body, material culture, and lived religion in his article, "The Material Culture of Lived Religions." Of particular use, he offers a set of operational definitions regarding material culture, embodiment, lived religion, aesthetics, and the material economy of the sacred.