What is it about?
The article (response to responses on my former article in Archaeological Dialogues about Agency) is a theoretical contribution about the concept of agency, and that it is irrelevant to use it in connection with inanimate objects. It pertains only to living organisms. And: the article criticizes the often convoluted and unnecessery inpenetrable language of some directions in archaeology, particularly symmetrical archaeology and materiality studies.
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Why is it important?
The article (and the former: "Agency in itself") adress the most recent theoretical developments in archaeological theory.
Perspectives
This article and my former (Agency “in itself”. A discussion of inanimate, animal and human agency. Archaeological Dialogues, 22, 2, 207-238.) are highly Critical to how the concept of 'agency' is used in recent archaeological theory. The articles address fundamental questions in philosophy of science and archaeological theory.
Professor Torill Christine Lindstrøm
Universitetet i Bergen
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This page is a summary of: Agency. A response to Sørensen and Ribeiro, Archaeological Dialogues, May 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s138020381700006x.
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