In recent decades, anthropology has paid increasing attention to materiality and the entanglement of objects in human social interaction.

Using the 1986 volume The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective as a springboard, this site is intended to give a brief overview of some of the ways in which "things" may be said to have social lives.
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Created (2008) by Diana Fridberg
Part of the SMU Theory Project, directed by Dr. Sunday Eiselt