Material Agency : Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach
Publication year: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-387-74711-8
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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.
Subject: 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
