Recasting Anthropological Knowledge

by Edwards, Jeanette; Petrovic-steger, Maja

• ISBN13: 9781107009684
• ISBN10: 1107009685
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-31
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

This collection of original essays provides an innovative and multifaceted reflection on the impact and inspiration of the scholarship of eminent anthropologist Marilyn Strathern. A distinguished team of international contributors, all former students of Strathern, reflect on the impact of their relationship with their teacher and address the wider conceptual contribution of her work through their own writings. The essays provide an accessible entry into Strathern's scholarship for those new to her work and a rich source of material which mobilises and deploys her concepts, including new ethnographic examples and discussion of contemporary political issues, for those more familiar with her scholarship. The result is a collection that dissects, contextualises and reroutes concepts of relationality, inspiration and knowledge in novel and unpredictable ways. Recasting Anthropological Knowledge will prove invaluable to all students of anthropology and will be of interest to scholars across the social sciences.

Table of Contents

Introduction: on recombinant knowledge and debts that inspire

Writing the parallax gap: an itinerary

Too big to fail

'Hybrid custom' and legal description in Papua New Guinea

Entomological extensions: model huts and fieldworks

Kinship and the core house: contested ideas of family and place in a Ghanaian resettlement township

Invisible families: imagining relations in families based on same-sex partnerships

Knowledge in a critical mode: feminist expertise in design and planning

Spools, loops and traces: on etoy encapsulation and three portraits of Marilyn Strathern

Inspiring Strathern

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