Thinking through things: theorising artefacts ethnographically/ edited by Amira Henare, Martin Holbraad and Sari Wastell

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TextPublication details: London: Routledge, 2007.Description: 237 pISBN:

9781844720712

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306 HEN/T

Contents:

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

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	General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section				306 HEN/T (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Available			P00865

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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

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