AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF THINGS: ETHNOGRAPHY AND METHOD

Authors

  • messias basques UFSCAR

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.12233

Keywords:

ethnography, methodology, native ontology, anthropological theory.

Abstract

This bibliographic essay is based on the book that resulted from a series of discussions promoted by a group of doctoral students in the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University in late 1990s. Despite the diversity of ethnographic contexts, all authors share the challenge of recasting the relationship between anthropological theory and ethnographic method in relation to the study of what is conventionally called material culture. Hence the title Thinking Through Things, besides denoting an anthropological question about what informants do, and how the authors could develop versions on the ways from which they perceive and conceive of things also includes the main character of the meetings that led to the writing of this book.

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Author Biography

messias basques, UFSCAR

Mestrando no PPGAS da UFSCAR. Bacharel em ciências sociais pela USP.

Published

2010-06-27

How to Cite

BASQUES, Messias. AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF THINGS: ETHNOGRAPHY AND METHOD. Espaço Ameríndio, Porto Alegre, v. 4, n. 1, p. 150, 2010. DOI: 10.22456/1982-6524.12233. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/12233. Acesso em: 3 aug. 2026.

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ESSAY