Preferred label

Materiality

Alternative label

Scope note

The sense of something as a material object (rather than, say, a written communication), or the study of it as such.

Parent concept

Material feature       

uh-linked-data/concept/332

Related concept                                                     

Artifact       

uh-linked-data/concept/23

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT       

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

 Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/334