It Happens Among People (eBook, ePUB)

Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth
Redaktion: Wu, Keping; Weller, Robert P.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory. As a collection, the chapters thus expand Barth's pioneering work on values, further develop his insights on human agency and its potential creativity, as well as continuing to develop the relevance for his work as a way of thinking about and beyond the state. The work is grounded on his insistence that theory should grow only from observed life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789204292
• Artikelnr.: 57953026

Autorenporträt

Robert P. Weller is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University.  Most of his work concentrates on Chinese societies in a comparative context, frequently with a focus on the problem of religious meaning and authority.  His most recent book is How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor, co-authored with Adam Seligman (Oxford, 2019).  He is currently working on urbanization and religious change.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Introduction
Robert P. Weller and Keping Wu
Chapter 1. Humility First: Fredrik Barth in His Own Words - and Mine
Unni Wikan
Chapter 2. Transacting Knowledge and Value: Fredrik Barth and the Tactics
of Mutual Incomprehension
Michael Herzfeld
Chapter 3. Cosmologies in the Remaking: Variation and Time in Chinese
Temple Religion
Robert P. Weller
Chapter 4. Building Infrastructure and Making Boundaries in Southwest China
Keping Wu
Chapter 5. On Nomads of South Persia
Thomas Barfield
Chapter 6. The Language of Trust and Betrayal
Gunnar Haaland
Chapter 7. Khan and Sufi:  Two Types of Authority in Swat, Northern
Pakistan
Charles Lindholm
Chapter 8. Values and the Value of Secrecy: Barthian Reflections on Values
and the Nature of Mountain Ok Social Process
Joel Robbins
Chapter 9. Paradigm Change in Chinese Ethnology and Fredrik Barth's
Influence
Ke Fan
Chapter 10. An Overall Generative Approach: Fredrik Barth's Contribution to
Anthropological Research and Writing
Chee-Beng Tan
Afterword: A Rooted Cosmopolitan Remembered
Ulf Hannerz
Index