Recasting Anthropological Knowledge

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-107-00968-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edwards, Jeanette

Petrović-Šteger, Maja

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Theorie und Methoden der Ethnologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: on recombinant knowledge and debts that inspire Jeanette Edwards and Maja Petrovic-Šteger; 2. Writing the parallax gap: an itinerary Debbora Battaglia; 3. Too big to fail Annelise Riles; 4. 'Hybrid custom' and legal description in Papua New Guinea Melissa Demian; 5. Entomological extensions: model huts and fieldworks Ann Kelly; 6. Kinship and the core house: contested ideas of family and place in a Ghanaian resettlement township Thomas Yarrow; 7. Invisible families: imagining relations in families based on same-sex partnerships Aivita Putnina; 8. Knowledge in a critical mode: feminist expertise in design and planning Eeva Berglund; 9. Spools, loops and traces: on etoy encapsulation and three portraits of Marilyn Strathern, Maja Petrovic-Šteger; 10. Inspiring Strathern Adam Reed.

Über Autor(innen)

Edwards, Jeanette
Jeanette Edwards is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Petrović-Šteger, Maja
Maja Petrović-Šteger is a Junior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Peterhouse, Cambridge.