##  [Object Biography](/index.php/object-biography) 

  ##  [Object Biography](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/object-biography-0) 

  

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**Humanities & Arts Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

An interpretive model that reconstructs an individual artefact's sequence of states and contexts—from production and modification through use, exchange, repair, reuse and disposal—to explicate how material transformations embody social relations, practices and trajectories over time.