Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies: Perspectives from UCL Anthropology

by Timothy Carroll (Editor), Antonia Walford (Editor), Shireen Walton (Editor)

Overview

This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of University College London 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, extraterrestriality, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000182637
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/10/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	302
Sales rank:	224,508
File size:	129 MB
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About the Author

Timothy Carroll is principal research fellow in the Department of Anthropology at University College London, UK.

Antonia Walford is lecturer in Digital Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at University College London, UK.

Shireen Walton is lecturer in Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Timothy Carroll, Antonia Walford, andShireen Walton

2. Extra-terrestrial methods: toward an ethnography of the ISS

Victor Buchli

3. Being, being human, becoming beyond human

Timothy Carroll and Aaron Parkhurst

4. ‘Things ain’t the same anymore’: Toward an anthropology of technical objects (or ‘When Leroi-Gourhan and Simondon meets MCS’)

Ludovic Coupaye

5. The object biography

Adam Drazin

6. A new instrumentalism?

Haidy Geismar

7. Objects of desire: Sexwork and its objects

David Jeevendrampillai, Julia Burton, and Eva Sanglante

8. Digital devices: Knowing material culture

Hannah Knox

9. Rethinking objectification and its consequences: From substitution to sequence

Susanne Küchler

10. Looking at things

Delphine Mercier

11. Making things matter

Daniel Miller and Laura Haapio-Kirk

12. Prophetic pictures: Or, What time is the visual?

Christopher Pinney

13. Held in Amma’s ight: 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