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J Material Culture 12 (3)
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J Material Culture 12 (3)
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Series:
Journal of Material Culture
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Volume:
12 (3)
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Journal
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Editor:
Graeme Were
Christopher Pinney
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Publisher:
Sage Publications
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Year of Publication:
2007
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://mcu.sagepub.com/content/vol12/issue3/
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02 Jan 2008
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Social networks and the creation of the Pitt Rivers Museum
Frances Larson
Alison Petch
David Zeitlyn
211 - 239
The authors consider how far different `networks of connection' have structured the relationships between curators, collectors and objects at the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University. An introduction to network theory and a consideration of `network' as a metaphor for social and material interactions more broadly is followed by a discussion of their research into the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum and an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of network analysis as a research tool in the museum context.
An anthropology of luminosity: the agency of light
Mikkel Bille
Tim Flohr Sørensen
263 - 284
The article addresses the relationship between light, material culture and social experiences. It argues that understanding light as a powerful social agent, in its relationship with people, things, colours, shininess and places, may facilitate an appreciation of the active social role of luminosity in the practice of day-to-day activities. The article surveys an array of past conceptions of light within philosophy, natural science and more recent approaches to light in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies. A number of implications are discussed, and by way of three case studies it is argued that light may be used as a tool for exercising social intimacy and inclusion, of shaping moral spaces and hospitality, and orchestrating movement, while working as a metaphor as well as a material agent in these social negotiations. The social comprehension of light is a means of understanding social positions in ways that may be real or imagined, but are bound up on the social and cultural associations of certain lightscapes.