How might anthropologists deal with artefacts, if not as ‘material culture’? And what implications might such an approach have, not only for sub-disciplines focused upon objects, but for analytic methodologies more generally? Thinking Through Things offers a positive programme designed to query habitual theoretical assumptions about the relationship of things and meanings, objects and subjects, materiality and sociality. Its contributors share common concerns about the place of objects in their interpretive strategies, regarding them as more than just vessels of meaning or indexes of human agency. er ist für version 2. Working through diverse ethnographic contexts (including Melanesia, Cuba, Swaziland, New Zealand, Mongolia and Britain), they explore ways in which objects encountered in the field might precipitate the terms of their own analysis, instead of simply being slotted into categories determined by a pre-existent theoretical repertoire. hi, ich suche einen, oder den uncut patch für CoH. The aim is thus to think through the things that present themselves in ethnography toward the development of new theory.
