Material Agency

Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-11-05
Mått:155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:429 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN:9781441945129

Utforska kategorier

Arkeologi inom Historia och arkeologi
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Innehållsförteckning

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.