Description: This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users.
Review Quotes: "Pierre Lemonnier is one of the few anthropologists of techniques trained in the tradition of Leroi-Gourhan. In his capable hands, daily objects from New Guinea, as well as from Europe, are taken out of the boring life granted to them by the common notion of 'matter' and begin to extend their connections to the whole social domain, forcing us to understand differently what is meant by 'materiality'."
--Bruno Latour, Institut d'études politiques de Paris