This article takes its point of departure in babies’ engagements with socks and seeks to explore (1) how material culture matters in babies’ everyday lives and (2) how we can understand material culture through attending to babies’ own practices, that is, babies’ culture. The ongoingness, sensoriality and movement of material culture are highlighted, and the article concludes that re-thinking material culture through babies’ engagements with socks means shifting the focus away from objects’ established meaning and towards the materials of those objects.

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婴儿的文化：通过婴儿与袜子的互动来想象每天的物质文化

本文从婴儿与袜子打交道的角度出发，试图探讨（1）物质文化在婴儿的日常生活中如何重要；（2）我们如何通过遵守婴儿的习惯来理解物质文化，即，婴儿的文化。强调了物质文化的持续性，感觉性和运动性，文章得出的结论是，通过婴儿与袜子的接触来重新思考物质文化意味着将焦点从对象的既定意义转移到这些对象的物质上。