Professor Thomas Yarrow's Outputs (40)

'Stone is stone': engagement and detachment in the craft of conservation masonry (2014)
Journal Article
Yarrow, T., & Jones, S. (2014). 'Stone is stone': engagement and detachment in the craft of conservation masonry. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20(2), 256-275. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12103

Since the mid-nineteenth century, craft has been characterized by relations of engagement, resonating with broader romantic discourses that idealize craftsmen in explicit contrast to forms of alienation linked to capitalist production. In recent work... Read More about 'Stone is stone': engagement and detachment in the craft of conservation masonry.

The Place of Theory: Rights, Networks, and Ethnographic Comparison (2013)
Journal Article
Englund, H., & Yarrow, T. (2013). The Place of Theory: Rights, Networks, and Ethnographic Comparison. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, 57(3), 132-149. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2013.570308

The relationship between theory and place has remained a central problem for the discipline of anthropology. Focusing on debates around the concepts of Human Rights and Networks, specifically as these traverse African and Melanesian contexts, this pa... Read More about The Place of Theory: Rights, Networks, and Ethnographic Comparison.

Crafting authenticity: An ethnography of conservation practice. (2013)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Yarrow, T. (2013). Crafting authenticity: An ethnography of conservation practice. Journal of Material Culture, 18(1), 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183512474383

"Age of Innocence": personal histories of the digging circuit. (2012)
Journal Article
Cooper, A., & Yarrow, T. (2012). "Age of Innocence": personal histories of the digging circuit. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 16, 300-318

Anthropology and Development: critical framings (2012)
Book Chapter
Yarrow, T., & Venkatesan, S. (2012). Anthropology and Development: critical framings. In S. Venkatesan, & T. Yarrow (Eds.), Differentiating development : beyond an anthropology of critique (1-20). Berghahn Journals

Differentiating Development: beyond an anthropology of critique (2012)
Book
Venkatesan, S., & Yarrow, T. (Eds.). (2012). Differentiating Development: beyond an anthropology of critique. Berghahn Journals

Kinship and the Core House: contested ideas of family and place in a Ghanaian resettlement township (2011)
Book Chapter
Yarrow, T. (2011). Kinship and the Core House: contested ideas of family and place in a Ghanaian resettlement township. In J. Edwards, & M. Petrovic-Steger (Eds.), Recasting anthropological knowledge : inspiration and social science (88-105). Cambridge University Press

Development Beyond Politics: Aid, Activism and NGOs in Ghana (2011)
Book
Yarrow, T. (2011). Development Beyond Politics: Aid, Activism and NGOs in Ghana. Palgrave Macmillan

Maintaining Independence: the moral ambiguities of personal relations amongst Ghanaian Development Workers (2011)
Book Chapter
Yarrow, T. (2011). Maintaining Independence: the moral ambiguities of personal relations amongst Ghanaian Development Workers. In A. Fechter, & H. Hindman (Eds.), Inside the everyday lives of development workers : the challenges and futures of aidland. Kumarian Press

Archaeology and Anthropology: understanding similarity, exploring difference (2010)
Book
Garrow, D., & Yarrow, T. (Eds.). (2010). Archaeology and Anthropology: understanding similarity, exploring difference. Oxbow

Introduction: Archaeological Anthropology (2010)
Book Chapter
Yarrow, T., & Garrow, D. (2010). Introduction: Archaeological Anthropology. In D. Garrow, & T. Yarrow (Eds.), Archaeology and anthropology : understanding similarity, exploring difference (1-12). Oxbow

Not knowing as knowledge: asymmetry between archaeology and anthropology (2010)
Book Chapter
Yarrow, T. (2010). Not knowing as knowledge: asymmetry between archaeology and anthropology. In D. Garrow, & T. Yarrow (Eds.), Archaeology and anthropology : understanding similarity, exploring difference (13-27). Oxbow

Paired Opposites: Dualism in Development and Anthropology. (2008)
Journal Article
Yarrow, T. (2008). Paired Opposites: Dualism in Development and Anthropology. Critique of Anthropology, 28(4), 426-455

Negotiating Difference: Discourses of Indigenous Knowledge and Development in Ghana (2008)
Journal Article
Yarrow, T. (2008). Negotiating Difference: Discourses of Indigenous Knowledge and Development in Ghana. Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 31(2), 224-242. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1555-2934.2008.00023

This article examines the contested ways in which the international development concept of “indigenous knowledge” has been used and understood by a variety of actors within Ghana including both Ghanaian and non-Ghanaian development workers, chiefs, a... Read More about Negotiating Difference: Discourses of Indigenous Knowledge and Development in Ghana.

Life/History: personal narratives of development amongst NGO workers and activists in Ghana (2008)
Journal Article
Yarrow, T. (2008). Life/History: personal narratives of development amongst NGO workers and activists in Ghana. Africa, 78(3), 334-358. https://doi.org/10.3366/e0001972008000211

Widespread assumptions about the extractive and self-serving nature of African elites have resulted in the relative neglect of questions concerning their personal ethics and morality. Using life-history interviews undertaken with a range of Ghanaian... Read More about Life/History: personal narratives of development amongst NGO workers and activists in Ghana.

In Context: Meaning, Materiality and Agency in the Process of Archaeological Recording (2008)
Book Chapter
Yarrow, T. (2008). In Context: Meaning, Materiality and Agency in the Process of Archaeological Recording. In C. Knappett, & L. Malafouris (Eds.), Material agency : towards a non-anthropocentric approach (121-138). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74711-8_7

Sites of Knowledge: different ways of knowing on an archaeological excavation. (2006)
Book Chapter
Yarrow, T. (2006). Sites of Knowledge: different ways of knowing on an archaeological excavation. In M. Edgeworth (Ed.), Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice: Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations. AltaMira Press

Perspective Matters: Traversing Scale through Archaeological Practice. (2006)
Book Chapter
Yarrow, T. (2006). Perspective Matters: Traversing Scale through Archaeological Practice. In G. Lock, & B. Molyneaux (Eds.), Confronting Scale in Archaeology: Issues of Theory and Practice (77-88). Altamira Press

"This is not the academic world of right and wrong": the obviation of truth through NGO documentary practice (2006)
Journal Article
Yarrow, T. (2006). "This is not the academic world of right and wrong": the obviation of truth through NGO documentary practice. Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 6(1), 50-59

Artefactual Persons: the Relational Capacities of Persons and Things in the Practice of Excavation. (2003)
Journal Article
Yarrow, T. (2003). Artefactual Persons: the Relational Capacities of Persons and Things in the Practice of Excavation. Norwegian Archaeological Review, 36(1), 65-73