This paper tackles our ordinary engagements with social robots to focus on their materiality.
In considering how an educational robot is encountered as a part of everyday practices in …

Purves' volume provides a powerful corrective to sight as the preeminent sense in classical
scholarship. as each essay demonstrates, touch blurs the boundaries between subjective …

In its analysis of the archaeologies and histories of the northern fringe of Europe, this book
provides a focus on animistic–shamanistic cosmologies and the associated human …

The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the
intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and other plastic arts in this milieu have not …

Names: Jones, Andrew, 1967–| Cochrane, Andrew. Title: The archaeology of art: materials,
practices, affects/Andrew Meirion Jones and Andrew Cochrane. Description: New York …

The image-based discourse on clay figurines that treated them as merely artistic
representations, the meaning of which needs to be deciphered through various iconological …

This article is a theoretical and ethnographic exploration of the possibility of 'touching the
past'. Drawing on fieldwork from Newfoundland, Canada, and in conversation with Gell's Art …

This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and
communal experiences of the religious agency generated when ritualised activities caused …

Miniature and fragmentary objects are both eye-catching and yet easily dismissed. Tiny
scale entices users with visions of Lilliputian worlds. The ambiguity of fragments intrigues us …

This chapter is inspired by a challenge from Yannis Hamilakis (2013a) to put into practice
sensorially reconstituted archaeologies. While he and others have strongly laid out the …