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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.
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.
1. IntroductionTimothy Carroll, Antonia Walford, andShireen Walton2. Extra-terrestrial methods: toward an ethnography of the ISS Victor Buchli3. Being, being human, becoming beyond humanTimothy Carroll and Aaron Parkhurst4. ‘Things ain’t the same anymore’: Toward an anthropology of technical objects (or ‘When Leroi-Gourhan and Simondon meets MCS’)Ludovic Coupaye5. The object biographyAdam Drazin6. A new instrumentalism?Haidy Geismar7. Objects of desire: Sexwork and its objectsDavid Jeevendrampillai, Julia Burton, and Eva Sanglante8. Digital devices: Knowing material cultureHannah Knox9. Rethinking objectification and its consequences: From substitution to sequenceSusanne Küchler10. Looking at thingsDelphine Mercier11. Making things matterDaniel Miller and Laura Haapio-Kirk12. Prophetic pictures: Or, What time is the visual?Christopher Pinney13. Held in Amma’s ight: The enchantment and political efficacy of gopurams in TamilnaduJill Reese14. A curatorial methodology for anthropologyRafael Schacter15. Data aestheticsAntonia Walford16. Place-objects: Anthropology of digital photography/sShireen Walton