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Database of Cultural Items (80 Entries)

John Spacey, updated on November 11, 2024

Cultural items are physical expressions of a culture. These can include items from both traditional culture and modern culture in areas such as art, craft, publishing, media and design.

All (80)

Arts & Crafts (36)

Publishing & Media (15)

Music (7)

Fashion (12)

Others (10)

Album Covers	Armor
Band T-shirts	Beads
Books	CDs
Calligraphy	Cards
Carvings	Cassette Tapes
Ceramics	Collages
Comic Books	Concert Posters
Costumes	DVDs
Decoupage	Drawings
Embroidery	Fabric Arts
Fashion Accessories	Figurines
Films	Flags and Other Symbols
Formalwear	Fresco
Games	Glassware
Graphic Designs Such as Signs	Graphic T-Shirts
Hair Accessories	Headdresses
Holiday Crafts	Illustrations
Installation Art	Jewelry
Leather Crafts	Magazines
Maps	Masks
Memorabilia	Metalwork
Mosaics	Murals
Musical Instruments	Nature Crafts
Newspapers	Origami
Ornaments	Paintings
Photographs	Postcards
Posters	Pottery
Prints	Religious Items
Sculptures	Seasonal Crafts
Sporting Goods	Stained Glass
Stamps	Statues
Stickers	Tapestries
Trading Cards	Traditional Clothing
Traditional Dolls	Traditional Foods
Traditional Footwear Such as Ballet Flats	Traditional Furniture
Traditional Hats	Traditional Products
Traditional Technology	Traditional Textiles
Traditional Toys	Uniforms
Video Game Cartridges	Vinyl Records
Woodcrafts	Zines

Material Culture

Material culture are the physical elements of a culture including creative expressions such as art, fashion and cuisine. This is also extended to include practical things such as tools that history will view as part of culture. For example, smartphones that are a practical tool that are perhaps likely to become key historical artifacts of our age.

Cultural Artifact

Generally speaking, the term cultural item refers to living culture such as street food from a vendor that is culturally remarkable in some way. The term cultural artifact is often used to describe historical cultural items such as an old painting in an art museum.

Everything is Cultural

People tend to think of culture as being about creative expression such as art. However, anything that influences the way that you live is also cultural. For example, the furniture that you use or the food that you eat. This can include high culture that is viewed as a priceless element of a culture and low culture that is more everyday stuff such as fast food.

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