Material Agency
Published 1 January 2008
Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris
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Agency is a key theme that cross-cuts a wide raft of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and beyond; yet it is invariably discussed separately behind closed disciplinary doors. Within archa
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