Thinking Through Things
Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically
Price: $39.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-1-84472-071-2
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 30th November 2006
- Pages: 248
About the Book
Drawing upon the work of some of the most influential theorists in the field, Thinking Through Things demonstrates the quiet revolution growing in anthropology and its related disciplines, shifting its philosophical foundations. The first text to offer a direct and provocative challenge to disciplinary fragmentation - arguing for the futility of segregating the study of artefacts and society - this collection expands on the concerns about the place of objects and materiality in analytical strategies, and the obligation of ethnographers to question their assumptions and approaches.
The team of leading contributors put forward a positive programme for future research in this highly original and invaluable guide to recent developments in mainstream anthropological theory.
Table of Contents
1. Thinking through things 2. ‘Smuk is king’ 3. Taonga Maori 4. The ‘legal thing’ in Swaziland 5. Collection as a way of being 6. Separating and containing people and things in Mongolia 7. Talismans of thought 8. Differentiation and encompassment 9. The power of powder