Thinking through things
Subtitle: theorising artefacts ethnographically
By: edited by Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad and Sari Wastell
Contributors: Henare, Amiria J. M., 1973-; Holbraad, Martin; Wastell, Sari
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Material culture
Table of contents: title: Thinking through things / Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, and Sari Wastell; title: Smuk is king : the action of cigarettes in a Papua New Guinea prison / Adam Reed; title: Taonga Mäori : encompassing rights and property in New Zealand / Amiria Henare; title: The "legal thing" in Swaziland : res judicata and divine kingship / Sari Wastell; title: Collection as a way of being / Andrew Moutu; title: Separating and containing people and things in Mongolia / Rebecca Empson; title: Talismans of thought : shamanist ontologies and extended cognition in northern Mongolia / Morten Axel Pedersen; title: Differentiation and encompassment: a critique of Alfred Gell's theory of the abduction of creativity / James Leach; title: The power of powder : multiplicity and motion in the divinatory cosmology of Cuban Ifá (or mana, again) / Martin Holbraad