Framing cosmologies (eBook, ePUB)

The anthropology of worlds
Redaktion: Abramson, Allen; Holbraad, Martin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How might the anthropological study of cosmologies - the ways in which the horizons of human worlds are imagined and engaged - 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. Its overall aim is to reaffirm the value of the cosmological frame as a continuing source of analytical insight. Attending to the novel cosmological formations that emerge in such fields as modern markets, political landscapes, digital media and popular cinema, the book's key task is to explore how modern circumstances are constituted within the variable imagination of worlds and their horizons. It will be of interest to all students and researchers in anthropology, as well as scholars in fields as diverse as film studies, cultural studies, comparative religion, science and technology studies, and broader social theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847799081
• Artikelnr.: 48796619

Autorenporträt

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