ISBN:
9781844720729
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (248 p.)
Series Statement:
UCL S
Parallel Title:
Print version Thinking Through Things : Theorising artefacts in ethnographic perspective
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Drawing upon the work of some of the influential theorists in the field, this book demonstrates the quiet revolution growing in anthropology and its related disciplines, shifting its philosophical foundations. It presents a direct challenge to disciplinar
Description / Table of Contents:
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION: Thinking through things; 2 'SMUK IS KING': The action of cigarettes in a Papua New Guinea prison; 3 TAONGA MAORI: Encompassing rights and property in New Zealand; 4 THE 'LEGAL THING' IN SWAZILAND: Res judicata and divine kingship; 5 COLLECTION AS A WAY OF BEING; 6 SEPARATING AND CONTAINING PEOPLE AND THINGS IN MONGOLIA; 7 TALISMANS OF THOUGHT: Shamanist ontologies and extended cognition in Northern Mongolia
Description / Table of Contents:
8 DIFFERENTIATION AND ENCOMPASSMENT: A critique of Alfred Gell's theory of the abduction of creativity9 THE POWER OF POWDER: Multiplicity and motion in the divinatory cosmology of Cuban Ifá (or mana, again); INDEX; Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School (3rd edition); The Reinvention of Primitive Society: Transformations of a Myth; The Future of Visual Anthropology: Engaging the Senses; Arguing with Anthropology: An Introduction to Critical Theories of the Gift;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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