Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology

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Ton Otto, Nils Bubandt
John Wiley & Sons, 25.10.2010 - 336 sivua
Experiments in Holism

Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology presents a series of essays that critically examine the ongoing relevance of holism and its theoretical and methodological potential in today’s world. Contributions from a diverse collection of leading anthropologists reveal how recent critiques of the holistic approach have not led to its wholesale rejection, but rather to a panoply of experiments that critically reassess and reemploy holism. The essays focus on aspects of holism including its utilization in current ethnographic research, holistic considerations in cultural anthropology, the French structuralist tradition, the predominantly English tradition of social anthropology, and many others. Collectively, the essays show how holism is simultaneously central to, and problematically a part of, the theory and practice of anthropology. Experiments in Holism reveals how contemporary attempts to rescale and retool anthropology entail new ways of coming to terms with anthropology’s heritage of holism, seeking to obviate its current excesses while recapturing its critical potential to meet the challenges of our contemporary world.

 

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Beyond the Whole in Ethnographic Practice? Introduction to Part 1
19
Or Can ActorNetwork Theory
47
Gambling Divination
67
Beyond Cultural Wholes? Wholes are Parts
87
Intercultural Politics of Order and Change
102
Lingual and Cultural Wholes and Fields
127
Fractal Holography in Trobriand Agency and Culture
150
Beyond Structural Wholes? Encompassment Collectives
175
Steps to an Ontology of Social Forms
209
Holism and the Transformation of the Contemporary Global Order
227
Cosmology
249
Joking the Cosmos Into the Right
262
Varieties of Historical Holism
279
Materials Gestures Lines
299
Index
314
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Louis Dumont and a Holist Anthropology
187

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Ton Otto is Professor of Anthropology and Ethnography at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Professor and Research Leader at The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. His most recent publications include the co-edited volumes Tradition and Agency: Tracing Cultural Continuity and Invention (2005, with Poul Pedersen) and Warfare and Society: Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives (2006, with Henrik Thrane and Helle Vandkilde).

Nils Bubandt is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University and co-editor-in-chief of Ethnos. He is the co-author of Imagining Nature: Practices of Cosmology and Identity (2003, with Andreas Roepstorff and Kalevi Kull), and has published numerous articles on topics such as forgery, witchcraft, globalization, and conflict.

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OtsikkoExperiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology
ToimittajatTon Otto, Nils Bubandt
Painoskuvitettu
KustantajaJohn Wiley & Sons, 2010
ISBN1444333232, 9781444333237
Pituus336 sivua
  
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