Material Agency Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach
Agency is a key theme that cross-cuts a wide raft of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and beyond; yet it is invariably discussed separately behind closed disciplinary doors. Within archaeology, agency has been characterized as a uniquely human attribute, and a means of incorporating in...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
2008, 2008
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2008 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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