Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: defining artifacts

Chapter 1: It is all in the mind

Chapter 2: Artifacts and the Body

Chapter 3: making space for the invisible

Chapter 4: Wrapping the surface, rethinking art

Chapter 5: The autonomy of objects

Epilogue: Towards an ecology with objects

Index

About the Author

Michael Chazan is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He co-directs the Wonderwerk Cave Research Project with fieldwork at Wonderwerk Cave and the sites of the Kathu Complex, both located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.