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Bill Sillar
The social context of technology, the physical properties of materials, and a con- sideration of how to decide which analytical procedures to use in relation to specific research questions.
Recent debate has emphasised how much technologies are shaped by cultural choice. At the same time there is a growing emphasis on how material culture influ- ences the people who use it.
"… Gell’s agentive object, however seductive the idea may at first seem, is a case of an analogy gone too far" (Morphy 2009, 6)
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