Material Agency
Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
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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.
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Material Agency “
- Introduction: Material and Nonhuman Agency- Where Brain, Body and World Collide.-The Argument for Material Agency
- Material Agency, Skills, and History: Distributed Cognition and the Archaeology of Memory
- The Actor-Enacted: Cumbrian Sheep in 2001
- Material Agency, Nature and Place: Trees as Actors
- 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: Experiencing the Dynamic Images on Irish Passage Tombs
- The Outward Clash: On Experience, Mediation and Material Agency in the Peircean Semiotic
- Concluding Remarks 1: When ANT meets SPIDER: Social theory for arthropods
- Concluding Remarks 2: Agency, Networks, Past and Future
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2010, XX, 256 Seiten, Maße: 15,5 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 1441945121
- ISBN-13: 9781441945129
Sprache:
Englisch
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