Theme:
1. Networks, networking, communication: archaeology of interactions
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Post-medieval People and Things: Exploring Networks of Agency
Content:
Recent theoretical discussions have considered the agency of things, with a variety of reactions to this proposal. This session, supported by the Society for Post-medieval Archaeology, facilitates exchange of theoretical and methodological insights in the relationship of people with things, including documents as well as other artefact categories. Papers may examine the interconnections between materials, people and environment in the production of material culture, the ways in which the built environment and the constructed landscape affected human experience and action as well as being affected by human agency, and the relationships between portable material culture and social practices. The post-medieval period allows the use of documentary sources to contextualise human actors and understand elements of wider socio-economic and ideological structures within which the materials remains were created, acted and were acted upon, and were finally deposited. Much of the evidence from the recent past is also used in contemporary networks of politics, tourism and community and national identity, the material remains having a role in contemporary decision-making. The session will explore networks of agency over many different scales, and with a variety of theoretical perspectives regarding the application of network theories.
Keywords:
Post-medieval Archaeology, Agency, People-things entanglement
Session associated with MERC:
yes
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Society for Post-medieval Archaeology
Main organiser:
Sergio Escribano-Ruiz (Spain) 1
Co-organisers:
Harold Mytum (United Kingdom) 2
Affiliations:
1. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
2. University of Liverpool
THIS SESSION CAN NOT BE SELECTED AT THIS MOMENT