Material Agency

Name: Material Agency
Brand: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
SKU: 9781441945129
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Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach

Szerző: Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

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Thus far an agent in the social sciences has always meant someone whose actions bring about change....

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Szerző

Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2010

oldal

256

EAN

9781441945129

ISBN

1441945121

Enbook ID

01422979

Kiadó

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

Súly

454

Méretek

155 x 235 x 16

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Thus far an agent in the social sciences has always meant someone whose actions bring about change. In this volume, the editors challenge this position and examine the possibility that agency is not a solely human property. Instead, this collection of archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists explores the symbiotic relationships between humans and material entities (a key opening a door, a speed bump raising a car) as they engage with one another.Agency is a key theme that cross-cuts a wide raft of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and beyond; yet it is invariably discussed separately behind closed disciplinary doors. §Within archaeology, agency has been characterized as a uniquely human attribute, and a means of incorporating individual intentionality into theoretical discourse. In other domains, however, notions of non-human and material agency have been finding currency, and it is our aim to introduce some of these themes into archaeology and develop a non-anthropocentric approach to agency. §It is anticipated that such a perspective will not only help us achieve more convincing interpretations of the past, giving a more active role to material culture, but also throw new light on the changing role of artifacts in the present and the future. §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.

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