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Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies

Perspectives from UCL Anthropology

Timothy Carroll editor Antonia Walford editor Shireen Walton editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:11th Nov '20

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University College London has a longstanding tradition in pushing new boundaries in the study of material culture; this volume showcases the most up to date insights into where the field is headed, and how it will get there.

This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of UCL Anthropology. Many of the chapters explicitly lay out the state of play in the field, challenging how the anthropology of material culture is being done, and arguing for new directions of enquiry or new methods of investigation.

This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of University College London 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, extraterrestriality, 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.

ISBN: 9781350127487

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 660g

282 pages