Material Agency : Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach
- Author
- Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Social Science
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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.
Keywords: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Archaeology / Material Culture / Pierre Bourdieu / Skill Studies / Sociology / Archaeology of memory / Artifacts / Cognitive science / Intelligent artefacts / Material agency / Material entities / Science / Social theory / Symbiotic relationships / Philosophy of Science / Archaeology / Anthropology / Cultural Heritage
