Cultural Artifacts: how is the artifact experienced or interpreted?what is the artifact’s role in society?
Cultural Artifacts Overview: In Claudia Wobovnik’s text and video “These Shoes Aren’t made for Walking”, she presents an analysis of the high-heeled shoe as a cultural artifact. Wobovnik explains that people often have different associations with the same cultural artifact, because the “cultural agents bring the object into meaning by using it” (85). In other … Read more