Descripción
In engaging essays, celebrated anthropologist Marilyn Strathern reflects on the complexities of social life. Property, Substance, and Effect draws on Marilyn Strathern's longstanding interest in the reification of social relations. If the world is shrinking in terms of resources and access to them, it is expanding in terms of new candidates for proprietorship. How new relations are brought into being is among the many questions about property, ownership, and knowledge that these essays bring together. Twenty years have not diminished the interest in the book's opening challenge: if one were inventing a method of enquiry by which to configure the complexity of social life, one might wish to invent something like the anthropologist's ethnographic practice. A wide range of studies deliberately brings into conversation claims people make on one another through relations imagined in the form of body-substance along with the increasing visibility of conceptual or intellectual work as property. Whether one lives in Papua New Guinea or Great Britain, categories of knowledge are being dissolved and reformed at a tempo that calls for reflection--and for the kind of lateral reflection afforded through the "ethnographic effect."
Author: Marilyn Strathern
Publisher: Hau
Published: 03/16/2023
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9780999157077
ISBN10: 0999157078
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Political Science | General
Author: Marilyn Strathern
Publisher: Hau
Published: 03/16/2023
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9780999157077
ISBN10: 0999157078
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Political Science | General
About the Author
Marilyn Strathern is professor emeritus of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of many books, including Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life, also published by HAU Books. Eric Hirsch is professor of anthropology at Brunel University London, conducting research in Papua New Guinea. He is author of Ancestral Presence: Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands.