Changes [Feb 08, 2009]
Weekly ScheduleResponse Papers Week 2: February 5. Materiality: ethnographies of material culture. Archaeological and anthropological approaches to studying objects, things, artifacts. An overview.
Response Papers Week 3: February 12. Problem of the fetish: towards a theory of powerful things.
Response Papers Week 4: February 26. Prehistoric figurines and barbie dolls.
Response Papers Week 5: March 5. Art and agency: Alfred Gell and the anthropological theory of artifacts.
Response Papers Week 6: March 12. Social life and cultural biography of things.