Pluralización De Perspectivas Sobre Cultura Material: Un ensayo sobre etnografía y el mondo de las cosas

Resumen

The article proceeds from the premise that people are socialized into a man-made world shaped by people, which always already possesses a material dimension. It focuses on material culture and the world of things with which we are intricately bound in our everyday lives. The thesis posits that in our handling of things, we have incorporated implicit knowledge of our practices that in the context of design research should be made explicit. Only when we engage with things more intensively does their complexity emerge. Things have conditions for existence, material qualities, functions, and meanings that are ascribed to them, which change and are culturally variable. They are enmeshed with human identities and interactions. To investigate material culture ethnographically requires artificially estranging oneself from it – for instance by using participatory research methods.