Material Agency: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441945121
• ISBN13: 9781441945129
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"