Knots: Ethnography of the Moral in Culture and Social Thought

ISBN-13: 9780367463663 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str.

Lipset, David

Opis

This book develops an exciting new view of this otherwise taken-for-granted image and considers their metaphoric value in and for moral order.

Spis treści

1 Knots as moral relationshiDavid Lipset and Eric K. Silverman:Part 1: Personhood and Society: 2 Knots in Sumo Wrestling and JapanKenji Tierney; 3 Knots and entanglements in JapanEllen Schattschneider: 4 Canoes, knots and the concept of the person in the Sepik (Papua New Guinea)Eric K. Silverman and David Lipset: 5 Making Manus social fabric (Papua New Guinea)Michelle Nayahmui Rooney: Part 2: State and Cosmos: 6 The knotted empire of the Inka StateGary Urton; 7 Weaving metaphors and cosmo-political thought in early ChinaDavid Pankenier: 8 Knots at the edge of order in the Northeast Kula Ring (Papua New Guinea)Frederick H. Damon; 9 The knot in the Pacific body politicSusanne Küchler; 10 Knots of authority and sanctity in ancient HawaiiAdrienne Kaeppler: Part 3: Social Thought; 11 Anthropology’s entanglement with ‘Europe’Sarah Green: 12 Afterword: Knots as Moral ReflexivityDavid Lipset and Eric K. Silverman