Thinking Through Things: Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically

✍ Scribed by Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, Sari Wastell

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 248
Series: UCL
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 itsВ philosophical foundations.В 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 contributorsВ put forward a positive programme for future research inВ thisВ highly original and invaluable guide to recent developments in mainstream anthropological theory.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 10
1 INTRODUCTION: Thinking through things......Page 12
2 ‘SMUK IS KING’: The action of cigarettes in a Papua New Guinea prison......Page 43
3 TAONGA MAORI: Encompassing rights and property in New Zealand......Page 58
4 THE ‘LEGAL THING’ IN SWAZILAND: Res judicata and divine kingship......Page 79
5 COLLECTION AS A WAY OF BEING......Page 104
6 SEPARATING AND CONTAINING PEOPLE AND THINGS IN MONGOLIA......Page 124
7 TALISMANS OF THOUGHT: Shamanist ontologies and extended cognition in Northern Mongolia......Page 152
8 DIFFERENTIATION AND ENCOMPASSMENT: A critique of Alfred Gell’s theory of the abduction of creativity......Page 178
9 THE POWER OF POWDER: Multiplicity and motion in the divinatory cosmology of Cuban Ifá (or mana, again)......Page 200
INDEX......Page 237
Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School (3rd edition)......Page 245
The Reinvention of Primitive Society: Transformations of a Myth......Page 246
The Future of Visual Anthropology: Engaging the Senses......Page 247
Arguing with Anthropology: An Introduction to Critical Theories of the Gift......Page 248

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