The house unbuilt: actor-networks, social agency and the ethnography of a residence in south-western Uganda

dc.contributor.author	Vokes, R.
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.description	Article first published online: 20 NOV 2013
dc.description.abstract	Anthropological theory has always shown a particular fascination for the subject of the house. However, Latour's work offers a significant challenge for previous theorising in this area. Latour challenges the very idea of what a house is, and encourages us to see ‘the house’ as not a coherent form at all, so much as a multitude of (more or less stable) assemblages. He also forces us to re-examine the relationship between constructed dwellings and the social, encouraging us to see the former as having particular forms of agency within the latter. This article examines these ideas in relation to the ethnography of one particular house in rural south-western Uganda.
dc.description.statementofresponsibility	Richard Vokes
dc.identifier.citation	Social Anthropology, 2013; 21(4):523-541
dc.identifier.doi	10.1111/1469-8676.12047
dc.identifier.issn	0964-0282
dc.identifier.issn	1469-8676
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2440/87141
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wiley
dc.rights	© 2013 European Association of Social Anthropologists
dc.source.uri	https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12047
dc.subject	Bruno Latour; actor-network theory; anthropology of the house; Uganda; sanitation
dc.title	The house unbuilt: actor-networks, social agency and the ethnography of a residence in south-western Uganda
dc.type	Journal article
pubs.publication-status	Published

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