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Marcia-Anne Dobres
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 9
Citations - 1339
Marcia-Anne Dobres is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agency (sociology) & Social change. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 9 publications receiving 1279 citations. Previous affiliations of Marcia-Anne Dobres include University of California.
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Agency in Archaeology
Marcia-Anne Dobres,John Robb +1 more
TL;DR: Agency in Archaeology as mentioned in this paper is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept of agency and examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past, which is composed of five theoretically-based discussions and nine case studies, drawing on regions from North America and Mesoamerica to Western and central Europe.
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Social agency and the dynamics of prehistoric technology
TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize a diverse set of emerging ideas and approaches to understand better dynamic community-level social processes of prehistoric material culture production, including scale, context, and materiality of technology.
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Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Framework for Archaeology
TL;DR: A Synoptic Approach to Technology: Conceptual Contours of a Practice Framework as mentioned in this paper is an approach to technology that is based on the Chaine Operatoire and the Logos Tekhnique.
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Gender and prehistoric technology: On the social agency of technical strategies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a conceptual framework and methodology for studying the social agency of prehistoric technology with the goal of understanding the dialectic of gendered practices and technical strategies.
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Archaeologies of technology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the ancient technician's body was a mindful, sensual, socially constituted and gendered being making sense of the world and themself by working through it.