What do you know abo ut the society in which it was produced?What are the economic and political systems in which the items were produced?

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Where and when was this item (or group of items) produced?

What do you know abo ut the society in which it was produced?

What kinds of people made the object you are analyzing? How7
Who used it7

How was it sold or distributed7

Did different people use the object in different kinds of ways? How?

How was the meaning of the object transformed in different
contexts7

What kinds of personal meanings might the objects have had, as
well as larger social meanings7

What kinds of things were used in similar ways7

What are the economic and political systems in which the items
were produced?