Desai, Amit (2010) Dilemmas of devotion: Religious transformation and agency in Hindu India, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16 (2): 313-329. In particular, birds are attributed the ability to call the names of people, thus evoking an affective response on the part of the hearer. He notes that among the Parakana, both shamans and jaguars are symbolically linked to cannibalism, since shamanism focuses on non-human others much in the same way that warfare concerns human others. Both Woodward 2007 and Dant 2007 provide useful overviews for students of the implications of looking at material culture for social theory and understandings of contemporary society. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter without a subscription. The broader sense of ethnosyntax refers to linguistic constructions in which, although a given morphosyntactic device may not be culturally specific, it does demonstrate culturally specific patterns of use and effects. Vilaa, Aparecida (1993) O canibalismo funerario Pakaa-Nova: Uma etnografia, in E.Viveiros de Castro and M.Carneiro da Cunha (eds. These symbolic links illustrate why the shaman is seldom a publicly recognised position in Parakan society. The book editors specify how ethnosyntax can be understood in both narrow and broad senses. Hicks, D., and M. Beaudry, eds. Keane warns that, in focusing on questions of agency in our attempts to overcome age-old determinisms, we should be weary of simply identifying freedom with the domain of ideas. Silverstein, Michael (2000) Whorfianism and the linguistic imagination of nationality, in P.V.Kroskrity (ed. Chaumeil (eds. (2008) Time and memory in Indigenous Amazonia: Anthropological perspectives (Gainesville, University Press of Florida).Focusing on the increasing interest in history and memory in Amazonian anthropology, the editors of this volume warn against the tendency in anthropology to project contemporary Western concerns with subjective experience, historical consciousness and individual agency onto the people we study. Buchli, V., ed. Walkers work is important for understanding the different kinds of agency attributed to objects, as well as providing a new perspective on how agency is construed in Amazonian cosmology beyond Viveiros de Castros predator/prey model. Following Wagners work in symbolic anthropology, Fiorini describes musical tunes as a manifestation of what they stand for. Such an approach requires viewing grammatical constructions as meaningful. Langacker, Ronald (1990) Concept, image, and symbol: The cognitive basis of grammar (Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter). this page. The article identifies predation as a hallmark of powerful agency in Amazonia, where we find complex relations between human and non-human persons. ), Personhood in the shamanic ecologies of contemporary Amazonia and Siberia (Oxford, Berghahn).This article explores Amazonian understandings of human and non-human agency in the context of Waorani shamanism, assault sorcery and regional inter-ethnic relations. 4In response to the recent proliferation of writing on perspectivism in Amazonia and elsewhere, a number of anthropologists working in South America have raised questions about gendered and generational forms of agency in Lowland South American shamanism and cosmology. This article argues that the perceived problems with the concept of material agency in archaeology and anthropology derive from similarly narrow conceptions. Both handbooks are up to date on current stances in material culture understandings, and while they draw on different disciplines, both are particularly located and relevant to anthropology (and archaeology). Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo (1996) Images of nature and society in Amazonian ethnology, Annual Reviews of Anthropology, 25: 179-200. Related references:Benveniste, mile (1971) Categories of thought and categories of language, in Problems in general linguistics, Mary Meek, trans. Evidence, ethnography, and the making of anthropological knowledge (Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing): 76-96. Henare, Amiria, Martin Holbraad and Sari Wastell (eds.) Course, MagnusE. (forthcoming) Of words and fog: Linguistic relativity and Amerindian ontology, Anthropological Theory, 10(3).This article takes issue with the status of subjects and objects in anthropological formulations of Amerindian cosmology. Dant, T. 2007. (2002) Ethnosyntax: explorations in grammar and culture (Oxford, Oxford University Press).The contributors to this collection explore how cultural ideas, values and social structures are encoded in the semantics of grammar in diverse cultural contexts. Like Duranti, Kockelman recognises accountability as a central aspect of agency, but goes further in addressing questions of power familiar to social theory. It suggests that Viveiros de Castros work on perspectivism is based on a view of subjects and objects as mutually exclusive identities, which Course argues is derived from the nominative-accusative nature of European languages. Such a semiotic approach distinguishes between signs, objects and interpretants (whatever a sign creates). Une anthropologie du mouvement, Mobilit, territoire et pouvoirs en Himalaya: pour Philippe Sagant. This is developed through the concept of objectification, which is central to many studies of material culturealbeit differently conceived dependent upon the disciplinary and theoretical stance takenwhich explores the intertwined, and often dialectic, relationships between people and things. 2006 and Hicks and Beaudry 2010; the Tilley, et al. Thinking through things: Theorising artefacts ethnographically. Oxford Bibliographies Online is available by subscription and perpetual access to institutions. Whereas the moral position of shamanism has become increasingly untenable in Woarani communities, it is primarily human enemies (Quichua-speaking people) who today occupy the position of predatory others and perform shamanic curing for the Waorani. Walker, Harry (2009) Baby hammocks and stone bowls: Urarina technologies of companionship and subjection, in F.Santos-Granero (ed. Nicole Boivin is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Duranti instead proposes a definition of agency that recognises 1) the degree of control an entity has over its own behaviour, 2) actions that affect other entities, and 3) entities whose actions are the object of evaluation. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/8516; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ateliers.8516, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London. The Malice of Inanimate Objects: Material Agency, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies, Introduction: Material Culture Studies: a Reactionary View, The MaterialCultural Turn: Event and Effect, Archaeological Assemblages and Practices of Deposition, From Identity and Material Culture to Personhood and Materiality, Urban materialities: meaning, magnitude, friction, and outcomes, The Landscape Garden as Material Culture: Lessons from France, Magical Things: on Fetishes, Commodities, and Computers, Afterword: Fings Ain't Wot they Used t' be: Thinking Through Material Thinking as Placing and Arrangement. Santos-Granero, Fernando (2009) Vital enemies: Slavery, predation, and the Amerindian political economy of life (Austin, University of Texas Press). Willerslev, Rane (2007) Soul hunters: Hunting, animism, and personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs (Berkeley, University of California Press). Flute rituals, in which musicians are like shamans in reconciling spirits to bodies, are closely associated with relations with otherness. These writings examine the kinds of agency attributed not only to plants and animals, but also to objects and music in diverse Amazonian contexts.
The link was not copied. A key example of how languages are classified based on how they encode agency can be seen in the distinction between nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive languages. The narrow sense refers to how distinct philosophies are encoded in the semantics of morphosyntax in a given language. . 2While debates about structure and agency have been a central concern in anthropology for decades, only in the past five years or so have anthropologists (particularly in the us) begun to question the philosophical assumptions that underlie academic interests in agency. (ed.) Overing, Joanna (1993) Death and the loss of civilized predation among the Piaroa of the Amazon basin, LHomme, 126-128: 191-211. All Rights Reserved.
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo (1998) Cosmological deixis and Amerindian perspectivism, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 4(3): 469-488. Handbook of material culture. Material culture in the social world. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Ethnographic works on cosmology in Siberia, Inner Asia, Papua New Guinea and elsewhere suggest that indigenous understandings of personhood and the non-human world challenge fundamental Western assumptions about nature, culture, human agency, as well as the nature of anthropological research itself. Whereas perspectivism is often understood as a struggle to impose ones own perspective as subject, the article argues that the transformative qualities of Amerindian cosmology reveal the problems with adopting a strict subject/object paradigm in regional studies. You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Copy this link, or click below to email it to a friend. In seeing the material properties of things as central to the meanings an object might have, much work within material culture studies is critical of the idea that objects merely symbolize or represent aspects of a pre-existing culture or identity. The article follows Peirce in adopting a highly varied typology of different kinds of interpretants that account for embodied responses, emotions and relatively abstract processes. In particular, he points to the centrality of agency in the interpretive turn in anthropology, and argues that recent anthropological approaches ranging from the focus on individual subjectivity to global political economy have relied on a similar conceptual genealogy that values agency as self-interpretation. She suggests that instead of imposing our own assumptions about who or what has agency, as anthropologists we should be open to understanding radically different concepts about responsibility, effectivity, and modes of being. Durantis broader goal is to promote a concept of agency that accounts for these aspects of ethnosyntax and questions of intentionality and affect that speak to the wider concerns of social theory. I hope that this will form the basis of a list that will continue to incorporate further texts on these topics in the future. More broadly, the authors advocate a move in anthropology away from questions of knowledge and epistemology and toward those of ontology. Carter and Sealey conclude by outlining some methodological implications of their approach which, apart from identifying specific social domains of language, appear to be consistent with conventional ethnographic methods in the social sciences. The study of material culture centers upon objects, their properties, and the materials that they are made of, and the ways in which these material facets are central to an understanding of culture and social relations. Planck, Frans (ed.) Both of these objects cultivate personal identity through different models of agency. His ethnography thus explores the conjuncture of radically different notions of agency that have played out in this context. PRINTED FROM OXFORD HANDBOOKS ONLINE (www.oxfordhandbooks.com).
It also challenges the assumption, perpetuated by disciplinary divisions and also philosophical trajectories, that the object and subject are separate, wherein the latter is assumed to be immaterial, and the former is assumed to be inert and passive. London: SAGE. ), Regimes of language: Ideologies, polities, and identities (Santa Fe, School of American Research Press): 85-138. Gow, Peter (2001) An Amazonian myth and its history (Oxford, Oxford University Press). He points to the general problem of how the designation of agent and patient in linguistics has been adopted within philosophical and anthropological theorizing of subjects and objects. (2007) Thinking through things: Theorising artefacts ethnographically (New York, Routledge).This edited collection attempts to bring a new, critical perspective on how ethnography holds the potential for understanding the relationship between concepts and things in new ways. This bibliography of material culture will not focus primarily upon the study of ethnographic museums (with the exception of the section on Display) but more on the so-called new material culture studies that have developed since the 1980s and that are characterized by combining ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological debate. Voir la notice dans le catalogue OpenEdition, Plan du site Mentions lgales et Crdits Flux de syndication, Politique de confidentialit Gestion des cookies, Nous adhrons OpenEdition Journals dit avec Lodel Accs rserv, You will be redirected to OpenEdition Search, Agency and Anthropology: Selected Bibliography, Inimigos Fiis: histria, guerra e xamanismo na Amaznia, Um Peixe Olhou Para Mim: O Povo Yudja e a Perspectiva, Comendo Como Gente: Formas do Canibalismo Wari. This work is useful in considering what criteria come into play in different definitions of agency. Similarly, music holds the potential to re-interpret or transform situations into more significant events in which the interpreters themselves are allowed greater agency. As such, sounds have the power to change the course of events and provide personal empowerment in everyday life. Published by SAGE and based in material culture at University College London (managing editors); includes wide ranging interdisciplinary research into material culture broadly conceived. Your current browser may not support copying via this button. Edited collection with topics ranging from visual culture to heritage to consumption; it draws together the work associated with the Material Culture Group at University College London. Rather than suggesting that language simply determines or limits thought or culture, the book engages seriously with the question of how grammar and culture are inter-constitutive. ), The occult life of things: Native Amazonian theories of materiality and personhood (Tuscon, University of Arizona Press): 81-104.This article examines the communicative potential of objects among the Amazonian Urarina, where baby hammocks and shamanic stones reveal the agency attributed to non-human entities. High, Casey (2008) End of the spear: Re-imagining Amazonian anthropology and history through film, in L.Chua, C.High and T.Lau (eds. Willerslev, Rane (2004) Not animal not not-animal: Hunting, imitation and empathetic knowledge among the Siberian Yukaghirs, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, ns10: 629-652. Lima, TaniaS. (2005) Um Peixe Olhou Para Mim: O Povo Yudja e a Perspectiva (So Paulo, Editora unesp). (1992) Language diversity and cognitive development: A reformulation of the linguistic relativity hypothesis (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press). Tilley, C., W. Keane, S. Kchler, M. Rowlands, and P. Spyer, eds.
Ateliers d'anthropologie Revue dite par le Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative est mis disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International. Meaning, Material Culture, and the Model of the Text, Material Agency in Historical Perspective, Animism and Fetishism: Material Agency and Ontology, Lessons From Science Studies and ActorNetwork Theory. There is a considerable amount of overlap between the sections, which are designated based on theme, discipline, region and theoretical approach. (Miami, University of Miami Press). (Manchester, University of Manchester) [Manchester papers in social anthropology, 7]. It highlights future research directions as well as looking back; suited to material culture researchers and students. Henare, et al. Based on this sign-object-interpretant model, Kockelman distinguishes between multiple kinds of agency, including control, composition and commitment. The authors follow the work of Margaret Archer and Derek Layder in arguing for a sociological realism that insists on the analytical separation of structure and agency. Kockelman, Paul (2006) Agent, person, subject, self, Semiotica, 162(1-4): 1-18. It looks specifically at relations of control, adoption, and domestication in Waorani shamanism, where the direction of agency has an important bearing on the moral status of shamanic practices.
The concept of material agency and the attendant concept of materiality has been widely adopted in the recent literature in archaeology and anthropology, yet its meaning has been widely misunderstood. I have also given priority to recent and forthcoming work that I feel engages issues of agency in novel ways that might be relevant to the group, referring particularly to texts that have not appeared on previous reading lists that include primarily linguistics readings. Related references:Latour, Bruno (1993) We have never been modern (Cambridge, Harvard University Press). Importantly, the book pushes us to consider how agency is located within structures of power, such that relations of subordination may create and enable people in unforseen ways. Les jeunes dans le sud de la Mditerrane, Entre cosmopolitisme, trajectoires et subjectivits, Reprsentations et mesures du corps humain en Msoamrique, Virtuosits ou Les sublimes aventures de la technique, La relation ethnographique, terrains et textes, Lethnologue aux prises avec les archives, Religions afro-amricaines: nouveaux terrains, nouveaux enjeux, A digital resources portal for the humanities and social sciences, 1) Recent anthropological perspectives on agency, 2) Relations between humans and non-humans, 3) Human and non-human agency in Lowland South America, 4) Recent adaptations of perspectivism beyond Amazonia, 5) Agency in linguistics, sociolinguistics and ethnosyntax, licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International, Catalogue of 591 journals. Wierzbicka, Anna (1998) Emotions across languages and cultures: Diversity and universals (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press). The article then summarizes some of the long history of the notion of material agency, in a range of disciplines from economics to anthropology.
The Journal of Material Culture was created in 1996 and evidences the desire to provide a location for original material culture research.
In discussing the encoding of agency in language, Duranti points to both the universality and diversity in how languages represent agency and its mitigation. Conversions to modernities: The globalization of Christianity (New York, Routledge): 263-273. Electronic agents and animals as new actors in politics and law, Journal of Law and Society, 33(4): 497-521.Writing from the perspective of a legal scholar, Teubner examines how law and science create new possibilities for non-human agency. This is because treating an object as an actor transforms uncertainty about causal relations into uncertainty about how the other will react to Egos actions. The article argues that the strong subject/object opposition common to many European languages is an analogy often represented as Amerindian reality. The books introduction distinguishes between two conventional ways of understanding agency in anthropology: one is agency as a universal human quality; the second is a culturally defined quality that can only be defined in terms of native practices and ontologies themselves. Though presenting a highly functionalist approach to non-human agency, Teubners work raises key questions about why agency is attributed to non-human entities in specific contexts of uncertainty.
Handbooks and edited collections attempting to draw together key works or to introduce and overview the field have started to appear since the late 1990s. Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content on Duranti, Alessandro (2004) Agency in language, in A.Duranti (ed. Descola, Philippe (1994) In the society of nature: A native ecology in Amazonia (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press). Enfield, NickJ.
Santos-Granero, Fernando (ed.) Members of the group are invited to add further references to the lists with the aim of creating an ever-growing database for agency/agentivity related texts. The two dimensions of agency, performance and coding, are mutually constitutive insofar as the enacting of agency (performance) simultaneously relies on and affects its encoding. Related references:Descola, Philippe (1992) Societies of nature and the nature of society, in A.Kuper (ed. AccueilNouvelle srie34Agency and Anthropology: Selected 1The following bibliography identifies several areas of anthropology and linguistics in which questions of agency and agentivity have come into focus in recent years. 2007. The material culture reader. It includes twenty-eight chapters written by experts from a range of disciplines; however, rather than celebrate the interdisciplinarity of material culture studies, this handbook highlights discipline-specific positions. Descola, Philippe (1996) Constructing natures: Symbolic ecology and social practice, in P.Descola and G.Plsson (eds. Of course, one of the central problems for identifying the interconnections between grammar and culture is the age-old question of how precisely to define culture itselfespecially since many scholars have debated the relevance of such a concept altogether. You could not be signed in, please check and try again. A similar approach is taken in two handbooks that emerged in 2006 and 2010, Tilley, et al. It then discusses differing ontologies of agency, including animism and fetishism, in which material agency plays a key role. He uses Latours notion of purification in drawing out the separation between words and things, nature and culture, bodies and souls, and subject and object that constitute much of the ideological basis of modernity.
What is at stake in semiotic processes is not just a sign standing for an object, but instead correspondences between two relations (a relation between relations). Just as shamans adopt jaguars as pets through dreaming, killing human enemies is a form of predation in which the killer acquires or consumes the victims intentionality and subjectivity. For more information or to contact an Oxford Sales Representative click here. Much like his book, the article pushes anthropologists to better recognise and take responsibility for the key concepts they use and promote, such as agency. Londoo Sulkin, Carlos (2005) Inhuman beings: Morality and perspectivism among Muinane people (Colombian Amazon), Ethnos, 70(1): 7-30. 
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