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Practicing Materiality
Ruth M. . Ed(S): Van Dyke
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Paperback. "Practicing Materiality focuses on the job of applying materiality to anthropological investigations. It demonstrates a practical way to focus on the entangled lives of things without losing sight of their political and social implications"--Provided by publisher. Editor(s): Van Dyke, Ruth M. Num Pages: 232 pages, 11 halftones, 11 line drawings, 1 chart, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Arizona Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816531271
SKU
V9780816531271
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About Ruth M. . Ed(S): Van Dyke
Ruth M. Van Dyke is a professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, USA 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.
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