ISBN:
9780754680109
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (253 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Ethnoscapes Ser
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Doing things with things
DDC:
306.46
Keywords:
Material culture -- Philosophy
;
Technology -- Social aspects
;
Knowledge, Theory of
;
Knowledge, Theory of, in children
;
Electronic books ; local
;
Knowledge, Theory of, in children
;
Knowledge, Theory of
;
Material culture ; Philosophy
;
Technology ; Social aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Alltagsgegenstand
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Verwendung
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Kind
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Soziokultur
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Sachkultur
;
Archäologie
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
It has been claimed that the natural sciences have abstracted for themselves a 'material world' set apart from human concerns, and social sciences, in their turn, constructed 'a world of actors devoid of things'. While a subject such as archaeology, by its very nature, takes objects into account, other disciplines, such as psychology, emphasize internal mental structures and other non-material issues. This book brings together a team of contributors from across the social sciences who have been taking 'things' more seriously to examine how people relate to objects. The contributors focus on every day objects and how these objects enter into our activities over the course of time. Using a combination of different theoretical approaches, including actor network theory, ecological psychology, cognitive linguistics and science and technology studies, the book argues against the standard notion of objects and their properties as inert and meaningless and argues for the need to understand the relations between people and objects in terms of process and change.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Part I: Intentionality and the Functionality of Things -- 1. The Case of the Recalcitrant Prototype -- 2. Use Plans and Artefact Functions: An Intentionalist Approach to Artefacts and their Use -- Part II: Things in the World of the Child -- 3. Autism and Object Use: The Mutuality of the Social and Material in Children's Developing Understanding and Use of Everyday Objects -- 4. Object Use in Pretend Play: Symbolic or Functional? -- 5. Culture, Language and Canonicality: Differences in the Use of Containers between Zapotec (Mexican Indigenous) and Danish Children -- Part III: Transformation and Things -- 6. The Cognitive Biographies of Things -- 7. The Woman who used her Walking Stick as a Telephone: The Use of Utilities in Praxis -- 8. Politics of Things: The Interplay of Design and Practice in a Design Workshop with Children -- Part IV: Organisation and Things -- 9. Working with Material Things: From Essentialism to Material-Semiotic Analysis of Sociotechnical Practice -- 10. Words and Things: Discursive and Non-Discursive Ordering in a Networked Organisation -- 11. Learning to Do Things with Things: Apprenticeship Learning in Bakery as Economy and Social Practice -- 12. Urban Makings and the Formalisation of Informal Settlements -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z.
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