Suchergebnisse

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Chapter summaries -- List of figures -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Movement and mobilities -- Introduction to Milan -- Introduction to the fieldsite -- NoLo: what's in a name? -- Methodology: urban digital ethnography -- The approach -- The people -- Notes -- 2 Experiences of ageing: policies, perceptions and practices -- Introduction: (how) does age matter? -- Ageing actively in focus -- Ageing and care -- Care responsibilities -- Badanti (care workers)

"This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of UCL Anthropology. In laying out the state of play in the field, it challenges how the anthropology of material culture is being done and argues for new directions of enquiry and new methods of investigation. The contributors consider the ramifications of specific research methods, and explore new methodological frameworks to address areas of human experience that require a new analytical approach. The case studies draw from a range of contexts, including digital objects, infrastructure, data, extra-terrestriality, ethnographic curation, and medical materiality. They include timely reappraisals of now classical analytical models that have shaped the way we understand the object, the discipline, knowledge formation, and the artefact"--