Theories of Material Agency and Practice

A Guide to Collecting Urban Material Culture

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2289345
AutoresAlison Clarke (0000-0003-2453-0906, University of Applied Arts Vienna)
Ano2014
Volume37
Fascículo1
Páginas17-26
Data de publicação2014-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMuseum Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0892-8339 • E-ISSN: 1548-1379
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/muan.12045
OpenAlexW2132166395
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas24

In understanding the objects of urban life, social scientists formerly emphasized formal phases of acquisition; mechanisms such as advertising, retailing, and marketing placed at the forefront of their theorization. The lived trajectories of material culture have taken on a new prescience for museology as contemporary anthropological discourse and everyday urban practice increasingly acknowledge the embeddedness of "things." Highlighting examples of the recent intersection of social science discourse, museology, art practice, and popular culture, this article explores concepts of material agency as a source for thinking through future collecting of urban material culture. [material culture, material agency, contemporary museology

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