Recasting Anthropological Knowledge - Inspiration and Social Science

Informationen zum Autor Jeanette Edwards is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Maja Petrovic-Šteger is a Junior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Klappentext This collection provides an innovative and multifaceted reflection on the impact and inspiration Marilyn Strathern's scholarship has for contemporary anthropology. Zusammenfassung These essays provide an accessible entry into the anthropologist Marilyn Strathern's scholarship and a rich source of material! including new ethnographic examples and discussion of political issues! deploying her concepts for those familiar with her work. Recasting Anthropological Knowledge will prove invaluable to students and scholars across the social sciences. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: on recombinant knowledge and debts that inspire Jeanette Edwards and Maja Petrovi¿-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 Petrovi¿-Šteger; 10. Inspiring Strathern Adam Reed.

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• Authors: Jeanette Edwards, Jeanette (University of Manchester) Petro Edwards, Jeanette Petrovic-Steger Edwards, EDWARDS JEANETTE PETROVIC STEGER
• Assisted by: Jeanette Edwards (Editor), Jeanette (University of Manchester) Edwards (Editor), Edwards Jeanette (Editor), Maja Petrovi -. Teger (Editor), Maja Petrovic-Steger (Editor), Maja (Peterhouse Petrovic-Steger (Editor), Maja Petrović-Šteger (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9781107009684
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00968-4
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology