Cutting and Connecting : : 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange / / ed. by Knut Christian Myhre.
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 theore...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Cutting and Connecting—‘Afrinesian’ Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange
- Chapter 1 Kuru, AIDS, and Witchcraft: Reconfiguring Culpability in Melanesia and Africa
- Chapter 2 Law, Opacity, and Information in Urban Gambia
- Chapter 3 From Cutting to Fading: A Relational Perspective on Marriage Exchange and Sociality in Rural Gambia
- Chapter 4 Gathering Up Mutual Help: Work, Personhood, and Relational Freedoms in Tanzania and Melanesia
- Chapter 5 Rethinking Ethnographic Comparison: Persons and Networks in Africa and Melanesia
- Chapter 6 Membering and Dismembering: The Poetry and Relationality of Animal Bodies in Kilimanjaro
- Chapter 7 The Place of Theory: Rights, Networks, and Ethnographic Comparison
- Afterword: Something to Take Back—Melanesia Anthropology after Relationality
- Index