Paper short abstract:

Different kinds of material and evidence seem to naturally suggest a different position for the analyst, for their interpretation, and for their authorship. How do notions of the person and their relation to their material influence analysis?

Paper long abstract:

Where does coherence arise from in anthropological, as opposed to archaeological, accounts? Is one more focused on reporting a coherence that seems to exist prior to analysis – more a matter of discovery than authorship? Different kinds of material and evidence seem to naturally suggest a different position for the analyst, for their interpretation, and for their authorship. If anthropology’s model of data demands authorial authority in a way not established as a requirement by the practices of a more scientific leaning discipline, would we need to suspend such assumptions to make use of multi-person research teams?