Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Part I: Intentionality and the Functionality of Things -- 1. The Case of the Recalcitrant Prototype -- 2. Use Plans and Artefact Functions: An Intentionalist Approach to Artefacts and their Use -- Part II: Things in the World of the Child -- 3. Autism and Object Use: The Mutuality of the Social and Material in Children's Developing Understanding and Use of Everyday Objects -- 4. Object Use in Pretend Play: Symbolic or Functional? -- 5. Culture, Language and Canonicality: Differences in the Use of Containers between Zapotec (Mexican Indigenous) and Danish Children -- Part III: Transformation and Things -- 6. The Cognitive Biographies of Things -- 7. The Woman who used her Walking Stick as a Telephone: The Use of Utilities in Praxis -- 8. Politics of Things: The Interplay of Design and Practice in a Design Workshop with Children -- Part IV: Organisation and Things -- 9. Working with Material Things: From Essentialism to Material-Semiotic Analysis of Sociotechnical Practice -- 10. Words and Things: Discursive and Non-Discursive Ordering in a Networked Organisation -- 11. Learning to Do Things with Things: Apprenticeship Learning in Bakery as Economy and Social Practice -- 12. Urban Makings and the Formalisation of Informal Settlements -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z.