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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Object agency"”.
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The Role of Amache Family Objects in the Japanese American Internment Experience: Examined Through Object Biography and Object Agency
… with internment through the concepts of object biography and object agency. It uses material culture analysis to help anthropologists understand the Japanese American internment experience, specifically through a case study at Amache, the Japanese American internment camp in southeastern …
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Internationalization: Utilizing the University Museum
… theories such as collaboration, participation, object agency and materiality. With the presentation of the findings from this study, the author also makes suggestions for future programming and exhibits university museums can utilize to engage with their international student population.</p>
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Founts of Knowledge: An Archaeological Ethnography of Four Sacred Wellsprings in Glamorgan, Wales
… ethnography emphasise themes of materiality and object agency, ontological reflexivity, and experiences of liminality (Bennet, 2010; Chadwick, 2012; Foley, 2013; Latour, 2005). Supplementing sparse archaeological data with ethnographic methods is found to be interpretively generative, although …
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A Girl Is a Thing: Dramaturgies of Objects and Nature in Contemporary Choreography
… inquiry. I research the upsurge of performing objects and natural matter in contemporary choreography by questioning what kind of bodies other than humans can move, and what kind of affects and expressions they offer beyond more familiar and anthropocentric possibilities. I link this challenge …
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Objects As Polyagents: Tracing The Histories Of The Gweagal Spears
This paper explores the capacity for objects entangled in complex - and often painful - histories to become constituted of multiple agencies (Gell 1998) through their interaction with various actants in complex and ever-expanding networks of association (Latour 1993; 2005). It does so by analysing …
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Interaction in the <i>Symposion</i>: An Experiential Approach to Attic Black-Figured Eye Cups
… yield a complete understanding of the ways these objects functioned, appeared, and influenced the all-male drinking parties of the Archaic Greek <i>symposion</i>. This paper presents a new evaluation of eye cups by utilizing an experiential approach to reconstruct ancient experiences with these …
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MIGRATIONS INTERCONTINENTALES D¿OBJETS VERS LA CARAÏBE D¿EXPRESSION FRANÇAISE
… we highlight the active role played by cultural objects within the social dynamics of the Caribbean. In particular, by situating literary production within its historical context, we were able to examine the material cultural contributions of populations who migrated—whether voluntarily or …