Material Agency

Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach

By: Carl Knappett (Editor), Lambros Malafouris (Editor)

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Hardcover | 19 September 2008

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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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Where Brain, Body and World Collide	p. 1
At the Potter's Wheel: An Argument for Material Agency	p. 19
Material Agency, Skills and History: Distributed Cognition and the Archaeology of Memory	p. 37
The Actor-Enacted: Cumbrian Sheep in 2001	p. 57
Non-Human Agencies: Trees in Place and Time	p. 79
Intelligent Artefacts at Home in the 21st Century	p. 97
In Context: Meaning, Materiality and Agency in the Process of Archaeological Recording	p. 121
The Neglected Networks of Material Agency: Artefacts, Pictures and Texts	p. 139
Some Stimulating Solutions	p. 157
On Mediation and Material Agency in the Peircean Semeiotic	p. 187
When ANT meets SPIDER: Social theory for arthropods	p. 209
Agency, Networks, Past and Future	p. 217
Index	p. 249
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