Thinking Through Things

NOTE EDITORE

Drawing upon the work of some of the most influential theorists in the field, Thinking Through Things demonstrates the quiet revolution growing in anthropology and its related disciplines, shifting itsphilosophical foundations.The first text to offer a direct and provocative challenge to disciplinary fragmentation - arguing for the futility of segregating the study of artefacts and society - this collection expands on the concerns about the place of objects and materiality in analytical strategies, and the obligation of ethnographers to question their assumptions and approaches. The team of leading contributorsput forward a positive programme for future research inthishighly original and invaluable guide to recent developments in mainstream anthropological theory.

SOMMARIO

1. 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 8. Differentiation and encompassment: a critique of Alfred Gell’s theory of the abduction of creativity 9. The power of powder: multiplicity and motion in the divinatory cosmology of Cuban Ifá

AUTORE

Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, Sari Wastell

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781844720729
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 1.10 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 1 line drawing
• Pagine Arabe: 248