bokomslag Material Agency
Historia

Material Agency

Carl Knappett Lambros Malafouris

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  • 256 sidor
  • 2008
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 individual intentionality into theoretical discourse. In other domains, however, notions of non-human and material agency have been finding currency, and it is our aim to introduce some of these themes into archaeology and develop a non-anthropocentric approach to agency. It is anticipated that such a perspective will not only help us achieve more convincing interpretations of the past, giving a more active role to material culture, but also throw new light on the changing role of artifacts in the present and the future. This book is a groundbreaking attempt to address questions of non-human and material agency from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines: archaeology, anthropology, sociology, cognitive science, philosophy, and economics. The editors and authors demostrate that a distributed, relational approach to agency, incorporating both humans and artifacts, has important ramifications for how we understand material culture.
  • Författare: Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris
  • Illustratör: black and white XX 3 Tables, black and white 49 Illustrations 256P49 illus
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780387747101
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2008-09-19
  • Förlag: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.