What objects exist in the social world and how should we understand them? Is a specific
Pizza Hut restaurant as real as the employees, tables, napkins and pizzas of which it is …

In Atmospheric Things Derek P. McCormack explores how atmospheres are imagined,
understood, and experienced through experiments with a deceptively simple object: the …

The idea of discipline opens up a nexus of meaning. Disciplines discipline disciples. 1 A
commitment to a discipline is a way of ensuring that certain disciplinary methods and …

Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts is the ideal introduction to this
discipline, defining and discussing its central terms with clarity and authority. Among the …

In Material Methods I outline the methodological possibilities and implications of researching
the material world. The book starts from the premise that the world is simultaneously material …

Over the past decade, infrastructures have emerged as compelling sites for qualitative social
research. This occurs in a general situation where the race for infrastructural investment has …

Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate
and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting …

Vital Memory and Affect takes as its subject the autobiographical memories of
'vulnerable'groups, including survivors of child sexual abuse, adopted children and their …

“There is nothing like a good rummage through someone's rubbish before nightfall,” asserts
the anonymous narrator of Ellis Sharp's novella, The Dump (1998). 1 Sharp's narrator claims …

Materialität ist ein zentrales und stetiges Thema der Architektur. Dieses Buch erklärt, wie
Materialien zu Stoffen unserer Kultur werden. Stoffwechsel verfolgt so die Metamorphosen …