Abstract
The articles in this volume were originally presented in a panel entitled 'Material Methodologies' at the American Anthropological Association meeting in New Orleans (November 2002). The panel was devised to tie together theoretical advances in the study of the material with the creative possibilities of fieldwork practices. Through detailed ethnographic discussion, we highlighted the ways in which a focus on a specifically material world enabled us to discover new perspectives on key themes within the discipline of social anthropology. Each participant's local focus was fundamentally material, from photographs in the Solomon Islands, to English trees, and Jamaican tombstones. Together, the articles reflect the salience of materiality to academic analysis and everyday life, acknowledging material forms as a potential bridge between domains of knowledge and experience, and therefore as crucial anthropological tools.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5-10 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Material Culture |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2004 |