Thinking through things : theorising artefacts ethnographically / edited by Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad and Sari Wastell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henare, Amiria J. M., 1973-

Holbraad, Martin.

Wastell, Sari.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture.

Physical Description:

x, 237 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Contents:

Thinking through things / Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, and Sari Wastell

Smuk is king : the action of cigarettes in a Papua New Guinea prison / Adam Reed

Taonga Mäori : encompassing rights and property in New Zealand / Amiria Henare

The "legal thing" in Swaziland : res judicata and divine kingship / Sari Wastell

Collection as a way of being / Andrew Moutu

Separating and containing people and things in Mongolia / Rebecca Empson

Talismans of thought : shamanist ontologies and extended cognition in northern Mongolia / Morten Axel Pedersen

Differentiation and encompassment: a critique of Alfred Gell's theory of the abduction of creativity / James Leach

The power of powder : multiplicity and motion in the divinatory cosmology of Cuban Ifá (or mana, again) / Martin Holbraad.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1844720721

1844720713

OCLC:

70407697

Publisher Number:

9781844720729

9781844720712