Abstract
'Materiality' and 'culture' are among the most discussed terms in contemporary social and cultural theory. This article offers a broad introductory overview of current debates both within the discipline of anthropology and beyond and situates these briefly with reference to anthropology's and social thought's entanglements with longer-term histories of, for example, capitalism and European colonial expansion.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition |
| Publisher | Elsevier Inc. |
| Pages | 765-771 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780080970875 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780080970868 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 26 2015 |
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Keywords
- Actor network theory
- Artifacts
- Capitalism
- Collections
- Colonialism
- Culture
- Historical materialism
- Material world
- Materiality
- Museums
- Object-oriented ontology
- Phenomenology
- Ritual exchange
- Sociality