Add to ORKGIs our subject matter just things, and may we content ourselves with the collection and study of artifacts?... not pot or chair, but pottery or chair production and con-sumption: what needs to be examined is not object or entity so much as process and event... Investigation of living human be-ings who are making and using things adds a dimension lacking in research for many dec-ades; and observations of contemporary craftsmen offer insight for understanding objects made long ago about which little is now known {1975: 11, 13, 241). Anthropologist C. Nootenboom makes the point even more strongly
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Abstract This contribution opens with a brief reflection on theoretical archaeology and practical m...
What role does ‘the materiality of things’ play in our relationship to the objects we create and con...
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This paper discusses an explanation, offered by Tim Ingold, for why social and cultural anthropologi...
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Many strands of archaeology have not succeeded in disentangling the complex relationship between hum...
Humans are surrounded by objects. The human-object interaction is more frequent than the human-human...
Pottery, then as now, formed an important part of many societies’ material culture. The study of cer...
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Contemporary social theorists argue that our deliberations on the social need to take place through ...
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Collections are artefacts—constructions that come into being when objects are physically or conceptu...
Abstract This contribution opens with a brief reflection on theoretical archaeology and practical m...
What role does ‘the materiality of things’ play in our relationship to the objects we create and con...
An invaluable field textbook, Objects examines nine detailed case studies to provide a brilliantly c...
This paper discusses an explanation, offered by Tim Ingold, for why social and cultural anthropologi...
What would an artefact-oriented anthropology look like if it were not about material culture? And co...
Many strands of archaeology have not succeeded in disentangling the complex relationship between hum...
Humans are surrounded by objects. The human-object interaction is more frequent than the human-human...
Pottery, then as now, formed an important part of many societies’ material culture. The study of cer...
What is odd is that studies of the material culture of kitchens have generally concentrated on pots ...
My bold suggestions in this paper, as an artisan-anthropologist-therapist, are as follows: (a) human...
What is archaeology? In contrast with most usual descriptions of our job, archaeologists do not stud...
This paper investigates an interdisciplinary perspective on museum research, offering a new orientat...
Contemporary social theorists argue that our deliberations on the social need to take place through ...
The article aims to reflect on the symbolism of the object and its links to day-to-day experience of...
Collections are artefacts—constructions that come into being when objects are physically or conceptu...
Abstract This contribution opens with a brief reflection on theoretical archaeology and practical m...
What role does ‘the materiality of things’ play in our relationship to the objects we create and con...