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9781844720729

Thinking Through Things: Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically

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  • ISBN13:

    9781844720729

  • ISBN10:

    1844720721

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-05-15
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

What would an artefact-based anthropology look like if it were not about material culture? And could such a project aspire, not to create a new sub-genre within the discipline, but to reconfigure anthropologys analytic methodologies more generally? Thinking Through Things is an ambitious foray by a group of young anthropologists who share common concerns about the place of objects and materiality in their interpretive struggles. More than simply a critique of existing anthropological reasoning, the volume puts forward a positive programme for the re-fashioning of anthropological endeavours. Testing the limit of the persistent analytical assumption that meanings are fundamentally distinct from their material manifestations, Thinking Through Things attempts to explore the consequences of an apparently counter-intuitive analytic possibility: that artifacts might be treated as sui generis meanings.

Table of Contents

Thinking through things
'Smuk is king': the action of cigarettes in a Papua New Guinea Prison
Taonga Maori: encompassing rights and property in New Zealand
The 'legal thing' in Swaziland: res judicata and divine kingship
Collection as a way of being
Separating and containing people and things in Mongolia
Talismans of thought: shamanist ontologies and extended cognition in northern Mongolia
Differentiation and encompassment: a critique of Alfred Gell's theory of the abduction of creativity
The power of powder: multiplicity and motion in the divinatory cosmology of Cuban Ifa
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