Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation--notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, he suggests, our inveterate tendency as human beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects not only a life but also a society.
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Tamen, M. (2001). Friends of Interpretable Objects. Friends of Interpretable Objects. Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674044210
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