This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the
Material Culture Section of University College London 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,
extraterrestriality, 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.