Cutting and Connecting (eBook, ePUB)

'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange
Redaktion: Myhre, Knut Christian

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Produktbeschreibung

Questions regarding the origins, mobility, and effects of analytical concepts continue to emerge as anthropology endeavors to describe similarities and differences in social life around the world. Cutting and Connecting rethinks this comparative enterprise by calling in a conceptual debt that theoretical innovations from Melanesian anthropology owe to network analysis originally developed in African contexts. On this basis, the contributors adopt and employ concepts from recent studies of Melanesia to analyze contemporary life on the African continent and to explore how this exchange influences the borrowed anthropological perspectives. By focusing on ways in which networks are cut and connections are made, these empirical investigations show how particular relationships are created in today's Africa. In addition, the volume aims for an approach that recasts relationships between theory and place and concepts and ethnography, in a manner that destabilizes the distinction between fieldwork and writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785332647
• Artikelnr.: 44868423

Autorenporträt

Knut Christian Myhre is a researcher attached to the ERC-funded project "Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons" in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. Recent publications include articles in American Ethnologist, Anthropological Theory, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and Social Analysis. He previously held research positions at the University of Oslo, the Nordic Africa Institute, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on
Networks, Relationality, and Exchange
Knut Christian Myhre
Chapter 1. Kuru, AIDS, and Witchcraft: Reconfiguring Culpability in
Melanesia and Africa
Isak Niehaus
Chapter 2. Law, Opacity, and Information in Urban Gambia
Niklas Hultin
Chapter 3. From Cutting to Fading: A Relational Perspective on Marriage
Exchange and Sociality in Rural Gambia
Tone Sommerfelt
Chapter 4. Gathering up Mutual Help: Work, Personhood, and Relational
Freedoms in Tanzania and Melanesia
Daivi Rodima-Taylor
Chapter 5. Rethinking Ethnographic Comparison: Persons and Networks in
Africa and Melanesia
Richard Vokes
Chapter 6. Membering and Dismembering: The Poetry and Relationality of
Animal Bodies in Kilimanjaro
Knut Christian Myhre
Chapter 7. The Place of Theory: Rights, Networks, and Ethnographic
Comparison
Harri Englund and Thomas Yarrow
Afterword
Adam Reed
Index