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Inspired by the work of world-renowned anthropologist Marilyn Strathern, this collection of essays features contributions from a range of internationally recognized scholars - including Strathern herself - which examine a range of methodologies and approaches to the anthropology of knowledge.
List of contents
Introduction1. Obligations and Requirements: The Contexts of Knowledge - Lisette Josephides, Queen's University Belfast, UKPart One: Epistemology, Subjectivity and the Ethics of Knowing Others2. Together We Are Two: The Disjunctive Synthesis in Affirmative Mode - Lisette Josephides, Queen's University Belfast, UK3. Desire, Agency and Subjectivity: A Renewal of Theoretical Thinking - Henrietta L. Moore, Cambridge University, UK4. Apologetics of an Apology and an Apologia - Andrew Moutu, Director of PNG Museum and Art Gallery, Papua New GuineaPart Two: Persons, Sociality, and Value: Partibility as Sacrifice, Consumption and Investment 5. Partible Personhood and Sacrifice in Melanesian Christianity: The New Melanesian Ethnography and the Paradox of Contemporary Religious Efflorescence - Mark Mosko, Australian National University, Australia6. Priceless Value: From No Money on Our Skins to a Moral Economy of Investment - Karen Sykes, University of Manchester, UKPart Three: Mobilizing Power and Belonging: The Local in a Global World7. 'Cutting the Network': Mobilisations of Ethnicity/Appropriations of Power in Multinational Corporations - Mitchell W Sedgwick, Oxford Brookes, UK8. 'Real Britons': Idiom and Injunctions of Belonging for a Cosmopolitan Society - Nigel Rapport, University of St Andrews, UKPart Four: Knowledge Exchange and the Creativity of Relationships / Contextualizing and Recontextualizing Knowledge9. Dialogue: Between Marilyn Strathern, University of Durham, UK, Nigel Rapport, University of St Andrews, UK, and Lisette Josephides, Queen's University Belfast, UKBibliographyIndex
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Lisette Josephides is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast, UK.
