ISBN:
1444333232
,
9781444333237
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 326 p)
,
ill
,
26 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Keywords:
Holism Philosophy
;
Anthropology Philosophy
;
Ethnotheorie
;
Holismus
;
Kulturanthropologie
Abstract:
Experiments in Holism : Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology presents a series of essays from leading anthropologists that critically reexamine the relevance of holism as a foundational tenet of anthropology, and its theoretical and methodological potential in today's world.: Represents the first volume to consider the modern role of holism as a central anthropological concern across a wide range of anthropological traditions; Critically examines the past and present predicament of holism and its potential for the renewal of future practice
Abstract:
Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropologypresents a series of essays from leading anthropologists that critically reexamine the relevance of holism as a foundational tenet of anthropology, and its theoretical and methodological potential in today's world.Represents the first volume to consider the modern role of holism as a central anthropological concern across a wide range of anthropological traditionsCritically examines the past and present predicament of holism and its potential for the renewal of future practiceFeatures contributions from leading anthropologi
Description / Table of Contents:
Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; 1. Anthropology and the Predicaments of Holism; Part 1 Rethinking Holism in Ethnographic Practice; 2. Beyond the Whole in Ethnographic Practice? Introduction to Part 1; 3. Holism and the Expectations of Critique in Post-1980s Anthropology Notes and Queries in Three Acts and an Epilogue; 4. Worlding the Matsutake Diaspora Or, Can Actor-Network Theory Experiment With Holism?; 5. The Whole Beyond Holism Gambling, Divination, and Ethnography in Cuba
Description / Table of Contents:
Part 2 Beyond Cultural Wholes? Wholes are Parts, and Parts are Wholes6. Beyond Cultural Wholes? Introduction to Part 2; 7. The Whole is a Part Intercultural Politics of Order and Change; 8. Lingual and Cultural Wholes and Fields; 9. Deep Wholes: Fractal Holography in Trobriand Agency and Culture; Part 3 Beyond Structural Wholes? Encompassment, Collectives, and Global Systems; 10. Beyond Structural Wholes? Introduction to Part 3; 11. Louis Dumont and a Holist Anthropology; 12. From Wholes to Collectives Steps to an Ontology of Social Forms
Description / Table of Contents:
13. Holism and the Transformation of the Contemporary Global OrderPart 4 Beyond Social Wholes? Holistic Practice: Cosmology, History, and the Continuity of Life; 14. Beyond Social Wholes? Introduction to Part 4; 15. Proportional Holism Joking the Cosmos Into the Right Shape in North Asia; 16. One Past and Many Pasts Varieties of Historical Holism in Melanesia and the West; 17. Drawing Together Materials, Gestures, Lines; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1002/9781444324426
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