Practicing Materiality - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816531277 ISBN 13 : 9780816531271

Editeur : University of Arizona Press, 2015

Synopsis

It is little wonder that relationships between things and humans are front-and-center in the contemporary social sciences, given the presence of technologies in every conceivable aspect of our lives. From Bruno Latour to Ian Hodder, anthropologists and archaeologists are embracing "thing theory" and the "ontological turn." In Practicing Materiality, Ruth M. Van Dyke cautions that as anthropologists turn toward animals and things, they run the risk of turning away from people and intentional actions.

Practicing Materiality focuses on the practical job of applying materiality to anthropological investigations, but with the firm retention of anthropocentrism. The philosophical discussions that run through the nine chapters develop practical applications for material studies, including Heideggerian phenomenology, Gellian secondary agency, object life histories, and bundling. Seven case studies are flanked by an introduction and a discussion chapter. The case studies represent a wide range of archaeological and anthropological contexts, from contemporary New York City and Turkey to fifteenth-century Portugal, the ancient southwest United States, and the ancient Andes. Authors in every chapter argue for the rejection of subject/object dualism, regarding material things as actively involved in the negotiation of power within human social relationships. Practicing Materiality demonstrates that it is possible to focus on the entangled lives of things without losing sight of their political and social implications.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ruth M. Van Dyke is a professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, where she researches archaeology of the indigenous southwest United States, power, ideology, social memory, phenomenology, and materiality, as well as landscape, architecture, place, and space. She is the author of­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ The Chaco Experience: Landscape and Ideology at the Center Place.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Arizona Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816531277
• ISBN 13: 9780816531271
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Éditeur: Dyke Ruth M. Van
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