Mar 28, 2024  
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ANTHROP 748 / OBJECT WORLDS: THE CIRCULATION AND VALUE OF MATERIAL CULTURE



This course critically engages with a number of major debates in material culture studies, focusing particularly on circulation/exchange, value and materiality in small-scale / pre-industrial societies. Central to this course is the theme of people-object relations, their dialectical constitution and such concepts as object agency and biographies, materiality, entanglement and distributed personhood. The class deals with some fundamental issues concerning the construction of value, the significance of object circulation and the relationship between social identity and material culture.



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