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Thinking through things : theorising artefacts ethnographically. / Amiria J. M. Henare.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: : Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. | : A-184, A, Nand Gram, Ghaziabad, U.P.Publication details: , London : Routledge , 2007.Description: x,232p. :24cmISBN:
  • 9781844720712
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 HEN
Contents:
Thinking through things / Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, and Sari Wastell Smuk is king : the action of cigarettes in a Papua New Guinea prison / Adam Reed Taonga Mäori : encompassing rights and property in New Zealand / Amiria Henare The "legal thing" in Swaziland : res judicata and divine kingship / Sari Wastell Collection as a way of being / Andrew Moutu Separating and containing people and things in Mongolia / Rebecca Empson Talismans of thought : shamanist ontologies and extended cognition in northern Mongolia / Morten Axel Pedersen Differentiation and encompassment: a critique of Alfred Gell's theory of the abduction of creativity / James Leach The power of powder : multiplicity and motion in the divinatory cosmology of Cuban Ifá (or mana, again) / Martin Holbraad
Summary: The team of leading contributors put forward a positive programme for future research in this highly original and invaluable guide to recent developments in mainstream anthropological theory.
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Thinking through things / Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, and Sari Wastell
Smuk is king : the action of cigarettes in a Papua New Guinea prison / Adam Reed
Taonga Mäori : encompassing rights and property in New Zealand / Amiria Henare
The "legal thing" in Swaziland : res judicata and divine kingship / Sari Wastell
Collection as a way of being / Andrew Moutu
Separating and containing people and things in Mongolia / Rebecca Empson
Talismans of thought : shamanist ontologies and extended cognition in northern Mongolia / Morten Axel Pedersen
Differentiation and encompassment: a critique of Alfred Gell's theory of the abduction of creativity / James Leach
The power of powder : multiplicity and motion in the divinatory cosmology of Cuban Ifá (or mana, again) / Martin Holbraad

The team of leading contributors put forward a positive programme for future research in this highly original and invaluable guide to recent developments in mainstream anthropological theory.

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