Recasting Anthropological Knowledge : Inspiration and Social Science
Jeanette. Edwards
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (220 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction:on recombinant knowledge and debts that inspire; Recombinant knowledge; Recombinant technology; Mission creep; Recombining persons; This volume; 2 Writing the parallax gap: an itinerary; 'The self in self-decoration' and ... a detour; On becoming birds; Professional work and constructs on the skin; Coming to roost; Fieldnotes; 3 Too big to fail; The legal relation; Inside and outside; Legal form; Legitimacy: the personhood of the state; Conclusion; Acknowledgements. - 4 'Hybrid custom' and legal description in Papua New GuineaHybrid custom; Eliciting the 'underlying law'; The nice thing about custom is that everyone has it; Describing relations; Acknowledgements; 5 Entomological extensions: model huts and fieldworks; Baffled vectors; The bug-men; Ethnographic dwellings; Acknowledgements; 6 Kinship and the core house: contested ideas of family and place in a Ghanaian resettlement township; Resettlement as modernisation; Resettlement in Apeguso; Kinship and place; Images of home; Contesting place and belonging; Conclusion; Acknowledgements. - 7 Invisible families: imagining relations in families based on same-sex partnershipsFamilies investigated; The nature and nurture of relationships; Focusing on relationships; The categorical perspective and hetero-normativity; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 8 Knowledge in a critical mode: feminist expertise in design and planning; Knowledge isn't what it used to be; Authority of experts; Designing with women; Knowledge democratised?; Amongst the talk, a little argument; Acknowledgements; Endnote; 9 Spools, loops and traces: on etoy encapsulation and three portraits of Marilyn Strathern. - etoy's Mission Eternity ProjectStowaway Encapsulation; From Abruzzo Stowaway Workshop Diary; Three portraits of Marilyn Strathern; Capsules, portraits, bodies, and the notion of sharing; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 10 Inspiring Strathern; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index. - This collection provides an innovative and multifaceted reflection on the impact and inspiration Marilyn Strathern's scholarship has for contemporary anthropology.
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| ISBN | 9781107009684
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