Thinking through things : theorising artefacts in ethnographic perspective

Thinking through things : theorising artefacts in ethnographic perspective / edited by Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad & Sari Wastell.

Other author/creator	Henare, Amiria J. M., 1973-
Other author/creator	Holbraad, Martin.
Other author/creator	Wastell, Sari.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Description	pages cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subject(s)	Material culture.

Contents	Thinking through things / Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, and Sari Wastell -- Smuk is king : the action of cigarettes in a Papua New Guinea prison / Adam Reed -- Taonga Maori : encompassing rights and property in New Zealand / Amiria Henare -- The "legal thing" in Swaziland : res judicata and divine kingship / Sari Wastell -- Collection as a way of being / Andrew Moutu -- Separating and containing people and things in Mongolia / Rebecca Empson -- Talismans of thought : shamanist ontologies and extended cognition in northern Mongolia / Morten Pedersen -- Differentiation and encompassment: a critique of Alfred Gell's theory of the abduction of creativity / James Leach -- The power of powder : multiplicity and motion in the divinatory cosmology of Cuban Ifá / Martin Holbraad.
LCCN	2006022250
ISBN	9781844720729 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	1844720721 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	9781844720712 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	1844720713 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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