” People use the world and its material richness to think with, not just to re-create thoughts they already have…

…Thus, Barth emphasized human engagement with, as opposed to distanced contemplation of, the material world as critical to the process of meaning production.”

– Nicole Boivin on the work of anthropologist Fredrik Barth in Material Cultures, Material Minds

Author: Sam Coren

I am a native of Providence, Rhode Island and current doctoral student in American Studies with a long-standing interest in the spatial morphology of cities, and more broadly, the weave of technology and landscape, infrastructure and ecology. Feel free to contact me at sam dot coren8 at gmail dot com View all posts by Sam Coren