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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction : Cutting and connecting: 'Afrinesian' perspectives on networks, relationality, and exchange / Knut Christian Myhre -- Kuru, AIDS, and witchcraft: reconfiguring culpability in Melanesia and Africa / Isak Niehaus -- Law, opacity, and information in urban Gambia / Niklas Hultin -- From cutting to fading: a relational perspective on marriage exchange and sociality in rural Gambia / Tone Sommerfelt -- Gathering up mutual help: work, personhood, and relational freedoms in Tanzania and Melanesia / Daivi Rodima-Taylor -- Rethinking ethnographic comparison: persons and networks in Africa and Melanesia / Richard Vokes -- Membering and dismembering: the poetry and relationality of animal bodies in Kilimanjaro / Knut Christian Myhre -- The place of theory: rights, networks, and ethnographic comparison / Harri Englund and Thomas Yarrow -- Afterword / Adam Reed |
| Summary |
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 theoretical innovations from Melanesian anthropology owe to network analysis originally developed in African contexts. On this basis, the contributors adopt and employ concepts from recent studies of Melanesia to analyze contemporary life on the African continent and to explore how this exchange influences the borrowed anthropological perspectives. By focusing on ways in which networks are cut and connections are made, these empirical investigations show how particular relationships are created in today's Africa. In addition, the volume aims for an approach that recasts relationships between theory and place and concepts and ethnography, in a manner that destabilizes the distinction between fieldwork and writing |
| Notes |
"Originally published as a special issue of Social Analysis, volume 57, issue 3." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2016) |
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Social networks -- Africa
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Social networks -- Research -- Methodology
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Social sciences -- Network analysis -- Methodology
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Ethnology -- Melanesia.
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Anthropology -- Africa
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Anthropology -- Comparative method
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Anthropology
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Ethnology
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Social networks
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Social networks -- Research -- Methodology
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Africa
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Melanesia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Myhre, Knut Christian, 1971- editor.
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| LC no. |
2016000846 |
| ISBN |
9781785332647 |
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1785332643 |
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1785332635 |
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9781785332630 |
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