MATERIAL PROTESTS

This article traces and exposes the material dimension of contemporary protests. In this piece, we consider protest as a particular type human communication that gains intelligibility in specific social situations are embodied objects. has led us to (re)think (about) dialogue which exists between anthropology light role culture. We read review these experiences from epistemological theoretical frameworks studies Argentina reconstruct arising our joint work developed at research group Cosas Cotidianas (CoCo), co-coordinate, dedicated analysing, an ethnographic perspective, how objects ‘participate’ life. Our paper is structured into 3 parts. Firstly, analysis undertaken followed by protest(s) finally, understanding through present pots (in Spanish cacerolas) Latin America, umbrellas Hong Kong waistcoats Paris (France) appear countries global south north. The ‘cultural biography things’ proposed conceptual framework for