Thinking through things theorising artefacts ethnographically / edited by Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad and Sari Wastell.

Other author Henare, Amiria J. M., 1973-
Other author Holbraad, Martin.
Other author Wastell, Sari.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,
Descriptionx, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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