Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies

Perspectives from UCL Anthropology
Herausgeber: Carroll, Timothy; Walton, Shireen; Walford, Antonia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of UCL Anthropology. Many of the chapters explicitly lay out the state of play in the field, challenging how the anthropology of material culture is being done, and arguing for new directions of enquiry or new methods of investigation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781350127487
• ISBN-10: 1350127485
• Artikelnr.: 57092421

Autorenporträt

Timothy Carroll is principal research fellow in the Department of Anthropology at University College London, UK. Antonia Walford is lecturer in Digital Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at University College London, UK. Shireen Walton is lecturer in Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Timothy Carroll, Antonia Walford, andShireen Walton
2. Extra-terrestrial methods: toward an ethnography of the ISS
Victor Buchli
3. Being, being human, becoming beyond human
Timothy Carroll and Aaron Parkhurst
4. 'Things ain't the same anymore': Toward an anthropology of technical
objects (or 'When Leroi-Gourhan and Simondon meets MCS')
Ludovic Coupaye
5. The object biography
Adam Drazin
6. A new instrumentalism?
Haidy Geismar
7. Objects of desire: Sexwork and its objects
David Jeevendrampillai, Julia Burton, and Eva Sanglante
8. Digital devices: Knowing material culture
Hannah Knox
9. Rethinking objectification and its consequences: From substitution to
sequence
Susanne Küchler
10. Looking at things
Delphine Mercier
11. Making things matter
Daniel Miller and Laura Haapio-Kirk
12. Prophetic pictures: Or, What time is the visual?
Christopher Pinney
13. Held in Amma's ight: The enchantment and political efficacy of
gopurams in Tamilnadu
Jill Reese
14. A curatorial methodology for anthropology
Rafael Schacter
15. Data aesthetics
Antonia Walford
16. Place-objects: Anthropology of digital photography/s
Shireen Walton