Thinking through things: theorising artefacts ethnographically/
edited by Amira Henare, Martin Holbraad and Sari Wastell
- London: Routledge, 2007.
- 237 p.
1. Thinking through things 2. `Smuk is king': the action of cigarettes in a Papua New Guinea Prison 3. Taonga Maori: encompassing rights and property in New Zealand 4. The `legal thing' in Swaziland: res judicata and divine kingship 5. Collection as a way of being 6. Separating and containing people and things in Mongolia 7. Talismans of thought: shamanist ontologies and extended cognition in northern Mongolia 8. Differentiation and encompassment: a critique of Alfred Gell's theory of the abduction of creativity 9. The power of powder: multiplicity and motion in the divinatory cosmology of Cuban Ifa