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On being and care. Joining the conversation on the symmetries/asymmetries of human–thing relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2017

Uzma Z. Rizvi
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Having followed the scholarship related to new materialisms, the call for a symmetrical archaeology, its critiques and subsequent responses, I believe that this dialogue is one of the more interesting ones as it illustrates the problematic and reiterative nature of debate within a symmetrical/asymmetrical framework. There is some clarity achieved through the utterly collegial challenges posited in emails between Ian Hodder and Gavin Lucas; enjoyable as it is at once intimate, rigorous and immediate. This is a useful discussion of something I have come to find to be an unnecessary theoretical insistence (i.e. symmetrical archaeology).

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Archaeological Dialogues , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , December 2017 , pp. 142 - 144
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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