Carl Knappett,
Lambros Malafouris
Springer US
0e druk, 2010
9781441945129
Material Agency
Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach
Specificaties
Paperback, 256 blz.
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Engels
Springer US |
0e druk, 2010
ISBN13: 9781441945129
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Samenvatting
Thus far an ‘agent’ in the social sciences has always meant someone whose actions bring about change. In this volume, the editors challenge this position and examine the possibility that agency is not a solely human property. Instead, this collection of archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists explores the symbiotic relationships between humans and material entities (a key opening a door, a speed bump raising a car) as they engage with one another.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781441945129
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:256
Uitgever:Springer US
Druk:0
Inhoudsopgave
Where Brain, Body and World Collide.- At the Potter’s Wheel : An Argument for Material Agency.- Material Agency, Skills and History: Distributed Cognition and the Archaeology of Memory.- The Actor-Enacted: Cumbrian Sheep in 2001.- Non-Human Agencies: Trees in Place and Time.- Intelligent Artefacts at Home in the 21st Century.- In Context: Meaning, Materiality and Agency in the Process of Archaeological Recording.- The Neglected Networks of Material Agency: Artefacts, Pictures and Texts.- Some Stimulating Solutions.- On Mediation and Material Agency in the Peircean Semeiotic.- When ANT meets SPIDER: Social theory for arthropods.- Agency, Networks, Past and Future.