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Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 List of illustrations 10 Notes on contributors 12 Acknowledgements 13 Introduction 14 Background 15 Embodiment 16 Mutuality 17 Functionality and power 18 Indigenous theory and illusion 19 1 The Berlin key or how to do words with things 23 2 The functions of things: a philosophical perspective on material culture 35 Introduction 35 Two philosophical conceptions of function 37 Function in material culture 42 Implications for archaeology 47 Conclusion 59 3 Making culture and weaving the world 63 Artefacts and organisms 63 Making and growing 64 On encountering a basket 66 Surface, force and the generation of form 68 Spirals in nature and art 70 The limits of design 72 On the growth of artefacts 73 Baskets and textiles 75 Making as a way of weaving 77 Weaving by birds and humans 78 Conclusion 81 4 Indigenous theories, scientific theories and product histories 85 Introduction 85 Indigenous theories and the demise of the early electric car 86 Indigenous theory: the dark side 91 Behavioural theories and scientific product histories 93 Discussion and conclusion 105 5 Taking things more seriously: psychological theories of autism and the material-s

Author

Graves-Brown, P.

Language

EN