Shifting Contexts: Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9780415107945 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 208 str.

M. Strathern; Marilyn Strathern

Opis

This text offers a critique of current Western thinking. It does not take it for granted that global and local indicate orders of magnitude or scales of importance. Rather, it addresses the techniques by which people shift the contexts of their knowledge and thus endow phenomena with local or global significance. This book examines certain contexts in which people (including anthropologists) make different orders of knowledge for themselves as a prelude to questioning assumptions about the size of knowledge implied in the contrast between global and local perspectives.

Spis treści

Introduction Foreword; Chapter 1 Forgotten knowledge, Mary Douglas; Chapter 2 Exhibiting knowledge, Mary Bouquet; Chapter 3 Building, dwelling, living, Tim Ingold; Chapter 4 Transformations of identity in Sepik warfare, Simon Harrison; Chapter 5 Human rights and moral knowledge, Richard Werbner; Chapter 6 Globalisation and the new technologies of knowing, Angela P. Cheater; Chapter 7 Cultures in collision, Stephen Hill, Tim Turpin; Chapter 8 The nice thing about culture is that everyone has it, Marilyn Strathern; Chapter 9 Afterword;

O autorze

Strathern, Marilyn