The Materialists

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Archaeology and Material Culture. What does all this stuff say about us?

  1. Aug 21

    Not on Your Life (Insurance)

    The Materialists are…. Nigel Rudolph (FPAN Central Region) Mandy Wagner-Pelkey (FPAN Central Region) For more info on FPAN please visit http://fpan.us/ We would like to thank…. The Florida Public Archaeology Network, The University of South Florida - Department of Anthropology, For more info on USF Anthro Department please visit their website at https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/anthropology/  Thank you to the band Have Gun, Will Travel for the use of their song Silver and the Age of Opulence for our intro music. For more information on HGWT please visit their website at http://hgwtmusic.com/ For questions or concerns about the podcast please email us at the materialistspodcast@gmail.com The Materialists Podcast – Not on Your Life (Insurance) First and foremost…we need to thank Adrienne Johnson, Map Specialist and Carol McAuliffe, Map Librarian, at at the Map & Imagery Library, George A. Smathers, University of Florida. https://maps.uflib.ufl.edu/ Intermission music: Title: Walking Blues Artist: Playing for Change (Robert Johnson) Musicians: Keb’ Mo’, Nico Bereciatua, Chris Pierce, Roberto Luti Album: Walking Blues Release: 2020 Closing Music: Title: Wildflowe Arist: Watchhouse Album: Blindfaller Release: 2016 Aetna Insurance, Enslaved person insurance policy https://africanamericancollection.com/portfolio/original-aetna-slave-insurance-policy-1859/aetna-slave-insurance-policy-270kb/ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-mar-11-fi-7637-story.html https://www.democracynow.org/2000/3/14/aetna_acknowledges_issuing_slave_policies_during Cartographer Louise E. Jefferson https://prisonculture.substack.com/p/louise-e-jefferson-trailblazing-black 1884 Fire Gainesville, FL https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-palatka-daily-news-1884-fire-palatka/201341160/ https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/2008/02/12/mapping-out-gainesville-history/31552177007/

  2. Feb 9

    So Long, and Thanks for the Memories

    The Materialists are…. Nigel Rudolph (FPAN Central Region) Mandy Wagner-Pelkey (FPAN Central Region) For more info on FPAN please visit http://fpan.us/ We would like to thank…. The Florida Public Archaeology Network, The University of South Florida - Department of Anthropology. For more info on USF Anthropology Department, please visit their website at https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/anthropology/  For questions or concerns about the podcast, please email us at the materialistspodcast@gmail.com The Materialists Podcast – Season 4, Ep. 7: A huge thank you to Erica Mollen from the University of Florida Historic Preservation Department. All the Music, All the Guests…in order of appearance: Cousin Thelma Boltin Florida Memory Legend of the Devil’s Millhopper, 1981 https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/238058 Andrew Persons, Chief Operating Officer, City of Gainesville, Board of City Commissioners. Erica Mollen, PhD Candidate and Doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Florida https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmollon/ Melanie Barr, Historic Preservation advocate, City of Gainesville, 2025 Preservation Champion Award. Richard Williams, “Old Forty”, Recorded May 27, 1978, by Dwight DeVane, Brenda McCallum & Stephen McCallum in Jonesville. https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/audio/playlists/playlist6.php Florida: Moonport USA. 1963 (circa) State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/232391 William Cooke, "Washboard Bill", 1905-2003, “Sunshine, Florida”, Where the White Feathers Grow. 1995-05-27. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/239662. Betsy Waite, Wild Spaces & Public Spaces, Engineer IV. https://www.gainesvillefl.gov/Government-Pages/Government/Departments/Wild-Spaces-Public-Places/WSPP-Team. Vive y Vacila – Adalberto Santiago & Salsa Express. Recorded August 14, 1981, by Peggy Bulger & Doris Dyen in Miami. https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/audio/playlists/alma_corazon_vida.php#tracks Thelma Boltin, Tom Walton, “Butter Beans” Florida Folk Festival, 1985. https://www.floridamemory.com/learn/exhibits/florida-folklife/people/?id=boltin If you are interested in listening and viewing the exciting City of Gainesville BOCC meeting where they discuss the fate of the Thelma Boltin Center, follow this link: https://pub-cityofgainesville.escribemeetings.com/Players/ISIStandAlonePlayer.aspx?Id=1dfd350d-dc6b-4ce0-98a2-ab282f285b57.

  3. 08/25/2025

    Gill-ty Pleasures

    The Materialists are…. Nigel Rudolph (FPAN Central Region) Mandy Wagner-Pelkey (FPAN Central Region) For more info on FPAN please visit http://fpan.us/ We would like to thank…. The Florida Public Archaeology Network, The University of South Florida - Department of Anthropology, For more info on USF Anthro Department please visit their website at https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/anthropology/  For questions or concerns about the podcast, please email us at the materialistspodcast@gmail.com The Materialists Podcast – Season 4, Ep. 6: Gill-ty Pleasures What fun this episode was to make. Spent a great day at the Silver Springs State Park in Ocala, Florida. For all the information on Silver Springs State Park, please check out https://silversprings.com/ and https://www.floridastateparks.org/silversprings New intro song for the episode is Unknown by The VY-Dels from Surf-Age Nuggets: Trash & Twang Instrumentals 1959-1966 Surf 1. Song purchased from iTunes. Movie Clip was from The Seven Year Itch https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqo1iUH91Pfv-7gwa7z2dOLY  Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Cast: Tom Ewell, Marilyn Monroe  The closing song is Creature From the Black Lagoon by Dave Edmunds from his 1970 album Repeat When Necessary. Song purchased from iTunes.

  4. 07/24/2025

    Of an Illicit Nature: The Artifacts of Vice

    For more info on FPAN please visit http://fpan.us/ We would like to thank…. The Florida Public Archaeology Network, The University of South Florida - Department of Anthropology, For more info on USF Anthro Department please visit their website at https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/anthropology/  Thank you to the band Have Gun, Will Travel for the use of their song Silver and the Age of Opulence for our intro music. For more information on HGWT please visit their website at http://hgwtmusic.com/ For questions or concerns about the podcast, please email us at the materialistspodcast@gmail.com The Materialists Podcast – Season 4, Ep. 5: Of an Illicit Nature: The Artifacts of Vice A huge thank you to our partners, Tim Jones & Sandra Chupinsky of FDEP Big Bend Seagrasses Aquatic Preserve. https://floridadep.gov/rcp/aquatic-preserve/content/big-bend-seagrasses-aquatic-preserve-management-and-protection Miami Vice theme - Jan Hammer - Miami Vice Theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nPTZqnIfFM https://www.janhammer.com/miami-vice-... For more about Jan Hammer please visit: Official Jan Hammer Website:  http://www.janhammer.com Official Jan Hammer Giftshop:  http://www.janhammer.com/giftshop Images of our trip to the mysterious island in Waccasassa Bay will be on our Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fpancentral/

  5. 12/09/2024

    Stuffocation: The Afterlife of Stuff

    The Materialists are…. Nigel Rudolph (FPAN Central Region) Mandy Wagner-Pelkey (FPAN Central Region) For more info on FPAN please visit http://fpan.us/ We want to thank…. The Florida Public Archaeology Network, The University of South Florida - Department of Anthropology, For more info on USF Anthro Department, please visit their website at https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/anthropology/   Thank you to the band Have Gun, Will Travel for using their song Silver and the Age of Opulence for our intro music. For more information on HGWT, please visit their website at http://hgwtmusic.com/ For questions or concerns about the podcast, please email us at the materialistspodcast@gmail.com The Materialists Podcast – Season 4, Ep. 4: Stuffocation: The Afterlife of Stuff Sorry it took so long to get this episode out, friends….life has many twists and turns. Thank you to Sarah Goff, Co-Founder and Artist of the Repurpose Project, Reuse Planet, and Renovator Reuse in Gainesville, Florida. For all the info... https://www.repurposeproject.org/about/resident-artists-bios/ https://www.repurposeproject.org/contact/ https://www.instagram.com/therepurposeproject/ Oh, my stars…another huge thank you to the artist Leah Piekarski for the impromptu interview while Mandy and I had a slice of pizza at Satchels Pizza. Mandy and Leah are old friends, and she was very generous in chatting with us out of the blue! For info on Leah and her art, check out… https://www.instagram.com/refractedlight_mosaic/  https://www.instagram.com/leahmmmpie/ https://www.satchelspizza.com/ “Not Charity, but a Chance”: Philanthropic Capitalism and the Rise of American Thrift Stores, 1894–1930, By Jennifer LeZotte Jennifer Le Zotte. "“Not Charity, but a Chance”: Philanthropic Capitalism and the Rise of American Thrift Stores, 1894–1930." The New England Quarterly, 86 (2013): 169-195. https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_A_00275 Thrift Shopping (song) by Matt Ward https://youtu.be/Ls5ii8ziXW0?si=OFfDNNGCX5p61dB4

  6. 03/09/2024

    The Bricks Beneath the Marker

    The Materialists are…. Nigel Rudolph (FPAN Central Region) Mandy Wagner-Pelkey (FPAN Central Region) For more info on FPAN please visit http://fpan.us/ We want to thank…. The Florida Public Archaeology Network, The University of South Florida - Department of Anthropology, For more info on USF Anthro Department please visit their website at https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/anthropology/  Thank you to the band Have Gun, Will Travel for the use of their song Silver and the Age of Opulence for our intro music. For more information on HGWT please visit their website at http://hgwtmusic.com/ For questions or concerns about the podcast please email us at the materialistspodcast@gmail.com The Materialists Podcast – Season 4, Ep. 2: The Bricks Beneath the Marker Huge thank you to Sam M. Wilford, Deputy State Archaeologist & Archaeology Collections & Conservation Supervisor, Florida Division of Historical Resources Here’s a list of links to all we talked about!!! Pensacola Brick Works articles… https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pensacola-news-brickmaking-in-pensac/32943137/ Alachua County Soil Survey https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00025129/00001 Closing song: Gouge Away by the Pixies used from iTunes

  7. 12/16/2023

    America’s Grave History

    The Materialists are…. Nigel Rudolph (FPAN Central Region) Mandy Wagner-Pelkey (FPAN Central Region) For more info on FPAN please visit http://fpan.us/ We would like to thank…. The Florida Public Archaeology Network, The University of South Florida - Department of Anthropology, For more info on USF Anthro Department please visit their website at https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/anthropology/  Thank you to the band Have Gun, Will Travel for the use of their song Silver and the Age of Opulence for our intro music. For more information on HGWT please visit their website at http://hgwtmusic.com/ For questions or concerns about the podcast please email us at the materialistspodcast@gmail.com The Materialists Podcast – Season 4, Ep. 1: America’s Grave History Huge thank you to my guests for this episode: Edward González-Tennant Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology Associate Director, CHAPS Program https://gonzaleztennant.net/ Nardos E. Iyob Writer, Scholar ABCD Study Project Manager UC San Diego https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/ramerican/1/ https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=ramerican Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries Fletcher, Kami, and Ashley Towle. Grave history: Death, race, and gender in Southern Cemeteries. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2023. https://ugapress.org/book/9780820365800/grave-history/

  8. 11/03/2022

    Halloween 2022! Boo!

    The Materialists are…. Nigel Rudolph (Public Archaeology Coordinator, FPAN Central Region) For more info on FPAN please visit http://fpan.us/ We would like to thank…. The Florida Public Archaeology Network, The University of South Florida - Department of Anthropology, and The Crystal River Preserve and Archaeological State Park. For more info on USF Anthro Department please visit their website at https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/anthropology/ For More info about the Crystal River Archaeological State Park please visit their website at https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/crystal-river-archaeological-state-park Thank you to the band Have Gun, Will Travel for the use of their song Silver and the Age of Opulence for our intro music. For more information on HGWT please visit their website at http://hgwtmusic.com/ For questions or concerns about the podcast please email us at the materialistspodcast@gmail.com The Materialists Podcast – Season 3, Ep. 5: Halloween22 Thank you to NPR https://www.npr.org/2019/10/29/773615928/cultural-appropriation-a-perennial-issue-on-halloween Mikey Dread – Roots and Culture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE3rUCiq7kI The Mole People 1956 – huge thanks to MST3K https://youtu.be/hq6AlUUCgi4 Demonia 1990(?) – Huge thanks to King of Horror Youtube Channel https://youtu.be/8P6LordzrbI http://kingsofhorror.com/ The Warren's Occult Museum, Monroe, Connecticut. Eric Grundhauser, Atlas Abscura. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-warrens-occult-museum-monroe-connecticut

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Archaeology and Material Culture. What does all this stuff say about us?

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    2019 - 2026
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