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?