Abramson / Unknown / Holbraad Framing cosmologies

The anthropology of worlds
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-84779-909-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Explores the ways in which the horizons of human worlds are imagined and engaged

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Abramson, Allen

Holbraad, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: the cosmological frame in anthropology – Allen Abramson and Martin Holbraad
PART I: Horizons of cosmological wonder: whither the whole?
1. To be a wonder: anthropology, cosmology, and alterity – Michael W. Scott
2. A new man: the cosmological horizons of development, curses, and personhood in Vanuatu – Knut Rio and Annelin Eriksen
3. Auto-relations: doing cosmology and transforming the self the Saiva way – Soumhya Venkatesan
4. Inter-gration and intra-gration in cosmology – Don Handelman
5. Coordinates of body and place: Chinese practices of centring – Stephan Feuchtwang
PART II: Cosmological constitutions: economies, politics, and the cosmos
6. Stranger kings in general: the cosmo-logics of power – Marshall Sahlins
7. Transitional cosmologies: shamanism and postsocialism in Northern Mongolia – Morten Axel Pedersen
8. Portioning loans: cosmologies of wealth and power in Mongolia – Rebecca Empson
9. Maize mill sorcery: cosmologies of substance, production, and accumulation in Central Mozambique – Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
PART III: Embedded modernities: cosmos, science, and the movies
10. A politico-astral cosmology in contemporary Russia – Caroline Humphrey
11. Facebook and the origins of religion – Daniel Miller
12. Don’t yell fire! The origin of humanity goes to the movies – Gregory Schrempp
13. Cosmology and the mythic in Kubrick’s 2001: the imaginary in the aesthetic of cinema – Bruce Kapferer
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Holbraad Martin:
Allen Abramson and Martin Holbraad convene the Cosmology, Ontology, Religion and Culture Research Group (CROC) in the Department of Anthropology at University College London (UCL), where they both teachAllen Abramson and Martin Holbraad convene the Cosmology, Ontology, Religion and Culture Research Group (CROC) in the Department of Anthropology at University College London (UCL), where they both teach