Cutting and connecting : 'Afrinesian' perspectives on networks, relationality, and exchange / edited by Knut Christian Myhre.

Cutting and connecting : 'Afrinesian' perspectives on networks, relationality, and exchange /

Questions regarding the origins, mobility, and effects of analytical concepts continue to emerge as anthropology endeavors to describe similarities and differences in social life around the world. Cutting and Connecting rethinks this comparative enterprise by calling in a conceptual debt that theore...

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Other Authors: Myhre, Knut Christian, 1971- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Subjects:
Social networks > Africa.
Social networks > Research > Methodology.
Social sciences > Network analysis > Methodology.
Ethnology > Melanesia.
Anthropology > Africa.
Anthropology > Comparative method.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Cutting and connecting: 'Afrinesian' perspectives on networks, relationality, and exchange / Knut Christian Myhre
  • Kuru, AIDS, and witchcraft: reconfiguring culpability in Melanesia and Africa / Isak Niehaus
  • Law, opacity, and information in urban Gambia / Niklas Hultin
  • From cutting to fading: a relational perspective on marriage exchange and sociality in rural Gambia / Tone Sommerfelt
  • Gathering up mutual help: work, personhood, and relational freedoms in Tanzania and Melanesia / Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  • Rethinking ethnographic comparison: persons and networks in Africa and Melanesia / Richard Vokes
  • Membering and dismembering: the poetry and relationality of animal bodies in Kilimanjaro / Knut Christian Myhre
  • The place of theory: rights, networks, and ethnographic comparison / Harri Englund and Thomas Yarrow
  • Afterword / Adam Reed.

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