Materiality

(4 Credits)

Investigates the key role that objects have played within the discipline of anthropological theory, methods and practices. Traces the theoretical lineage of concepts such as objectification, material culture, commoditication, materialism, perspectivalism, to build up a nuanced picture of the analytic frameworks used to understand the material qualities of social life, and to make sense of the divergent ways in which things are magnified within social worlds.