Us, Relatives - Scaling and Plural Life in a Forager World

Informationen zum Autor Nurit Bird-David is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Haifa and the author of numerous articles on hunter-gatherer lifeways. Zusammenfassung Explores how scalar blindness skews our understanding of these cultures and the debates they inspire. This book elaborates on indigenous modes of "being many" that have been eclipsed by scale-blind anthropology, which generally uses its large-scale conceptual language of persons, relations, and ethnic groups for even tiny communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PROLOGUE: ONE OF US INTRODUCTION: SCALAR BLINDNESS AND FORAGER WORLDS DOWNSCALE 1. MAPS OF HOME 1. AT HOME: SETTING AND MIND SETTING DOWNSCALE 2. CENSUS OF RELATIVES 2. LIVING PLURALLY: MOBILITY AND VISITING DOWNSCALE 3. TREE OF RELATIVES 3. THE SIB MATRIX: DYADIC AND SEQUENTIAL LOGIC 4. COUPLES AND CHILDREN: GENDER! CAREGIVING! AND FORAGING TOGETHER DOWNSCALE 4. TAXONOMY OF NONHUMAN RELATIVES 5. NONHUMAN KIN: UNISPECIES SOCIETIES AND PLURAL COMMUNITIES DOWNSCALE 5. FAMILY AND ETHNONYM 6. A CONTINUUM OF RELATIVES: OTHERING AND US-ING 7. THE STATE’S FORAGERS: THE SCALE OF MULTICULTURALISM EPILOGUE: PLURIPRESENT AND IMAGINED COMMUNITIES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES REFERENCES INDEX

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• Authors: Nurit Bird-David, Bird-David Nurit
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9780520293403
• ISBN: 978-0-520-29340-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjec; Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology