Recasting Anthropological KnowledgeJeanette Edwards, Maja Petrović-Šteger This collection of original essays provides an innovative and multifaceted reflection on the impact and inspiration of the scholarship of eminent anthropologist Marilyn Strathern. A distinguished team of international contributors, all former students of Strathern, reflect on the impact of their relationship with their teacher and address the wider conceptual contribution of her work through their own writings. The essays provide an accessible entry into Strathern's scholarship for those new to her work and a rich source of material which mobilises and deploys her concepts, including new ethnographic examples and discussion of contemporary political issues, for those more familiar with her scholarship. The result is a collection that dissects, contextualises and reroutes concepts of relationality, inspiration and knowledge in novel and unpredictable ways. Recasting Anthropological Knowledge will prove invaluable to all students of anthropology and will be of interest to scholars across the social sciences. |
Contents
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an itinerary | 19 |
3 Too big to fail | 31 |
4 Hybrid custom and legal description in Papua New Guinea | 49 |
model huts and fieldworks | 70 |
contested ideas of family and place in a Ghanaian resettlement township | 88 |
imagining relations in families based on samesex partnerships | 106 |
feminist expertise in design and planning | 125 |
on etoy encapsulation and three portraits of Marilyn Strathern | 145 |
10 Inspiring Strathern | 165 |
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Recasting Anthropological Knowledge: Inspiration and Social Science Jeanette Edwards,Maja Petrović-Šteger No preview available - 2011 |
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