It happens among people : resonances and extensions of the work of Fredrik Barth / edited by Keping Wu and Robert P. Weller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wu, Keping.

Contributor:

Wu, Keping, editor.

Weller, Robert P. (Robert Paul), 1953- editor.

Series:

Wyse series in social anthropology ; Volume 8.

WYSE Series in Social Anthropology ; Volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barth, Fredrik, 1928-2016--Influence.

Barth, Fredrik.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2020.

Summary:

Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory. As a collection, the chapters thus expand Barth’s pioneering work on values, further develop his insights on human agency and its potential creativity, as well as continuing to develop the relevance for his work as a way of thinking about and beyond the state. The work is grounded on his insistence that theory should grow only from observed life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Introduction

1. Humility First: Fredrik Barth in His Own Words—and Mine

2. Transacting Knowledge and Value: Fredrik Barth and the Tactics of Mutual Incomprehension

3. Cosmologies in the Remaking: Variation and Time in Chinese Temple Religion

4. Building Infrastructure and Making Boundaries in Southwest China

5. On Nomads of South Persia

6. The Language of Trust and Betrayal

7. Khan and Sufi: Two Types of Authority in Swat, Northern Pakistan

8. Values and the Value of Secrecy: Barthian Reflections on Values and the Nature of Mountain Ok Social Process

9. Paradigm Change in Chinese Ethnology and Fredrik Barth’s Influence

10. An Overall Generative Approach: Fredrik Barth’s Contribution to Anthropological Research and Writing

Afterword. A Rooted Cosmopolitan Remembered

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-715-0

1-78920-429-1

OCLC:

1132407604