Materiality and Agency: New Paradigms in the Study of Human Development, Culture, and Cognition (E09*)

• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology ; Prehistory and World Archaeology
• Term: from 2017 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 57444011

The E9 project aims at developing a theoretical and methodological framework for key concepts of the CRC research that will elucidate materiality-agent-environment (social and physical) interactions. Theories and concepts derived from ethnography and the social sciences are integrated with the archaeological record to intertwine materiality and agency that shaped ‘archaeological industries’, ‘productive economies’, ‘mobility patterns’ and ‘human migrations’. The E9 project thus implements an epistemological platform for critically assessing and evaluating pivotal terminologies and concepts often used but seldom reflected on in relevant academic fields.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 806: Our Way to Europe: Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Thiemo Breyer