On the Order of Chaos : : Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos /

On the Order of Chaos : : Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos / / ed. by Mark S. Mosko, Fred Damon.

Over the past two decades, “chaos theory” – the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder – has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to adapt the insights o...

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HerausgeberIn:
Damon, Fred,
Mosko, Mark S.,
MitwirkendeR:
Damon, Frederick H.,
Kelly, José Antonio,
Morava, Jack,
Mosko, Mark S.,
Piot, Charles,
Strathern, Marilyn,
Taylor, Christopher C.,
Wagner, Roy,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES AND TABLES
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PROLOGUE
  • 1 INTRODUCTION: A (RE)TURN TO CHAOS Chaos Theory, the Sciences, and Social Anthropological Theory
  • 2 FROM LÉVI-STRAUSS TO CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY
  • 3 FRACTAL FIGURATIONS Homologies and Hierarchies in Kabre Culture
  • 4 “PITY” AND “ECSTASY” The Problem of Order and Differentiated Difference Across Kula Societies
  • 5 FRACTALITY AND THE EXCHANGE OF PERSPECTIVES
  • 6 FLUIDS AND FRACTALS IN RWANDA Order and Chaos
  • 7 PEACE, WAR, SEX, AND SORCERY Nonlinear Analogical Transformation in the Early Escalation of North Mekeo Sorcery and Chiefly Practice
  • 8 AFTERWORD Order is What Happens When Chaos Loses Its Temper
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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