How might the anthropological study of cosmologies illuminate understandings of the contemporary world? This book addresses this question by bringing together anthropologists whose research is informed by a concern with cosmological dimensions of social life in different ethnographic settings
How might the anthropological study of cosmologies illuminate understandings of the contemporary world? This book addresses this question by bringing together anthropologists whose research is informed by a concern with cosmological dimensions of social life in different ethnographic settings
Allen Abramson and Martin Holbraad convene the Cosmology, Ontology, Religion and Culture Research Group (CROC) in the Department of Anthropology at University College London
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The cosmological frame in anthropology Allen Abramson and Martin Holbraad Part I: Horizons of cosmological wonder: whither the whole? 1. To be a wonder: anthropology, cosmology, and alterity Michael W. Scott 2. A new man: the cosmological horizons of development, curses, and personhood in Vanuatu Knut Rio and Annelin Eriksen 3. Auto relations: doing cosmology and transforming the self the Saiva way Soumhya Venkatesan 4. Inter gration and intra gration in cosmology Don Handelman 5. Coordinates of body and place: Chinese practices of centring Stephan Feuchtwang Part II: Cosmological constitutions: economies, politics and the cosmos 6. Stranger kings in general: the cosmo logics of power Marshall Sahlins 7. Transitional cosmologies: shamanism and postsocialism in Northern Mongolia Morten Axel Pedersen 8. Portioning loans: cosmologies of wealth and power in Mongolia Rebecca Empson 9. Maize mill sorcery: cosmologies of substance, production, and accumulation in Central Mozambique Bjørn Enge Bertelsen Part III: Embedded modernities: cosmos, science, and the movies 10. A politico astral cosmology in contemporary Russia Caroline Humphrey 11. Facebook and the origins of religion Daniel Miller 12. Don't yell fire! The origin of humanity goes to the movies Gregory Schrempp 13. Cosmology and the mythic in Kubrick's 2001: the imaginary in the aesthetic of cinema Bruce Kapferer Index
Introduction: The cosmological frame in anthropology Allen Abramson and Martin Holbraad Part I: Horizons of cosmological wonder: whither the whole? 1. To be a wonder: anthropology, cosmology, and alterity Michael W. Scott 2. A new man: the cosmological horizons of development, curses, and personhood in Vanuatu Knut Rio and Annelin Eriksen 3. Auto relations: doing cosmology and transforming the self the Saiva way Soumhya Venkatesan 4. Inter gration and intra gration in cosmology Don Handelman 5. Coordinates of body and place: Chinese practices of centring Stephan Feuchtwang Part II: Cosmological constitutions: economies, politics and the cosmos 6. Stranger kings in general: the cosmo logics of power Marshall Sahlins 7. Transitional cosmologies: shamanism and postsocialism in Northern Mongolia Morten Axel Pedersen 8. Portioning loans: cosmologies of wealth and power in Mongolia Rebecca Empson 9. Maize mill sorcery: cosmologies of substance, production, and accumulation in Central Mozambique Bjørn Enge Bertelsen Part III: Embedded modernities: cosmos, science, and the movies 10. A politico astral cosmology in contemporary Russia Caroline Humphrey 11. Facebook and the origins of religion Daniel Miller 12. Don't yell fire! The origin of humanity goes to the movies Gregory Schrempp 13. Cosmology and the mythic in Kubrick's 2001: the imaginary in the aesthetic of cinema Bruce Kapferer Index
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