Writing, et al.

BOOKS

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Murphy, K.M. 2015. Swedish Design: An Ethnography, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

Murphy, K.M. and C.J. Throop, eds. 2010. Toward an Anthropology of the Will, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press

 

SOME ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Murphy, K.M. 2019. “Lettering the Land: The Social World as Pattern/ed Language,” in LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture.

Murphy, K.M. 2017. “Fontroversy! Or, How to Care About the Shape of Language,” in S. Shankar and J. Cavanaugh (eds.), Language and Materiality, Cambridge University Press.

Murphy, K.M. 2016. “Design and Anthropology,Annual Review of Anthropology.

Murphy, K.M. 2016. “The Aesthetics of Governance: Thoughts on Designing (and) Politics,” in The Journal of Design Strategies.

Murphy, K.M. 2013. “A Cultural Geometry: Designing Political Things in Sweden,” in American Ethnologist 40(1), 118-131.

Murphy, K.M., Ivarsson, J, and Lymer, G. 2012. “Embodied Reasoning in Architectural Critique,” in Design Studies 33, 53-556.

Murphy, K.M. 2012. “Transmodality and Temporality in Design Interactions,” in Journal of Pragmatics 44, 1966-1981.

Murphy, K.M. 2011. “Building Stories: The Embodied Narration of What Might Come to Pass,” in J. Streeck, C. Goodwin and C. Lebaron (eds.) Embodied Interaction: Language and Body in the Material World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Murphy, K.M. 2005. “Collaborative Imagining: The Interactive Use of Gestures, Talk, and Graphic Representation in Architectural Practice,” in Semiotica 156 1/4, 113-145.

Murphy, K.M. 2004. “Imagination as Joint Activity: The Case of Architectural Interaction,” in Mind, Culture, and Activity 11 (4), 267-278.

Murphy, K.M. 2003. “Building Meaning in Interaction: Rethinking Gesture Classification,” in Crossroads of Language, Interaction, and Culture 5, 29-48.

Throop, C.J. & K.M. Murphy. 2002. “Bourdieu and Phenomenology: A Critical Assessment,” in Anthropological Theory 2 (2), 185-207.

 

SOME OTHER STUFF

Murphy, K.M. 2018. Ethnographic Design. Keywords for Ethnography and Design, Cultural Anthropology website.

Murphy, K.M. 2016. Design and Temporality: Reaction. Correspondences, Cultural Anthropology website.

Murphy, K.M. 2016. Design as a Cultural System. EPIC website.

An interview with me, by Lindsay Bell, about anthropology and design, for Savage Minds. Part 1 and Part 2.