Assembling things: Warao crafts, trade and tourists

We tend to give less attention to the process of assembling things when analysing their social life or biography. There is a preconception of things being relatively stable, fixed and inert entities. In this paper, I suggest exploring the ordinary life of things, accounting for the interweaving of t...

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Main Author: Sørhaug, Christian (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2021
In: Journal of material culture
Year: 2021, Volume: 26, Issue: 4, Pages: 365-381
Further subjects:B Anthropocene
B Agency
B natural
B Assembling
B worlding
B Symmetry
B relational ontology
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