Lineages and advancements in material culture studies : perspectives from UCL anthropology /

Lineages and advancements in material culture studies : perspectives from UCL anthropology / edited by Timothy Carroll, Antonia Walford and Shireen Walton. - 1 online resource

"This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of UCL Anthropology. In laying out the state of play in the field, it challenges how the anthropology of material culture is being done and argues for new directions of enquiry and new methods of investigation. The contributors consider the ramifications of specific research methods, and explore new methodological frameworks to address areas of human experience that require a new analytical approach. The case studies draw from a range of contexts, including digital objects, infrastructure, data, extra-terrestriality, ethnographic curation, and medical materiality. They include timely reappraisals of now classical analytical models that have shaped the way we understand the object, the discipline, knowledge formation, and the artefact"--

9781003085867 1003085865 9781000182637 1000182630 9781000185812 1000185818 9781350127494 1350127493 9781350127500 1350127507 9781000189292 1000189295

10.4324/9781003085867 doi


University College, London. Anthropology Department.


Material culture--Research--Methodology.
Material culture--Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General

GN406

306.072/1