Toward a more instrument-centered biography: From object agency to object individuality
Published online on February 18, 2026
Abstract
Journal of Material Culture, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 48-68, March 2026.
The practice of writing biographies for museum-collected instruments lies at the intersection of the history of scientific instrument and anthropological object biography studies. Current practitioners often downplay object agency, resulting in either ...
The practice of writing biographies for museum-collected instruments lies at the intersection of the history of scientific instrument and anthropological object biography studies. Current practitioners often downplay object agency, resulting in either ...