ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the role of material culture in articulating relations between people, exploring the role of artefacts in partible personhood as an example throughout. This chapter provides some examples of how objects mediate in relationships that join and separate people, showing how the little transactions of things between people convey personal qualities from one person to another. It also turns the spotlight on the contextual practices that throw people and objects into direct comparison, as well as those that temporarily distinguish them from one another. Finally, it assesses the potential for archaeological investigations of personhood afforded by patterns in the treatment of artefacts.
