Lineages and advancements in material culture studies : perspectives from UCL anthropology / edited by Timothy Carroll, Antonia Walford and Shireen Walton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carroll, Timothy (Timothy Andrew), editor.

Walford, Antonia, editor.

Walton, Shireen Marion, 1986- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--Research--Methodology.

Material culture.

Material culture--Case studies.

University College, London. Anthropology Department.

University College, London.

Material culture--Research.

Methodology.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Summary:

"This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of UCL 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, extra-terrestriality, 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Shireen Walton

2. Extraterrestrial methods: towards an ethnography of the ISS / Victor Buchli

3. Being, being human, becoming beyond human / Aaron Parkhurst

4. `Things ain't the same anymore': towards an anthropology of technical objects (or `When Leroi-Gourhan and Simondon meet MCS') / Ludovic Coupaye

5. The object biography / Adam Drazin

6. A new instrumentalism? / Haidy Geismar

7. Objects of desire: sexwork and its objects / Eva Sanglante

8. Digital devices: knowing material culture / Hannah Knox

9. Rethinking objectification and its consequences: from substitution to sequence / Susanne Kuchler

10. Looking at things / Delphine Mercier

11. Making things matter / Laura Haapio-Kirk

12. Prophetic pictures: or, What time is the visual? / Christopher Pinney

13. Held in Amma's light: the enchantment and political efficacy of gopurams in Tamilnadu / Jill Reese

14. A curatorial methodology for anthropology / Rafael Schacter

15. Data aesthetics / Antonia Walford

16. Place-objects: anthropology of digital photography/s / Shireen Walton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lineages and advancements in material culture studies

ISBN:

9781350127487

1350127485

OCLC:

1178869824