Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange

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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Other Authors: Myhre, Knut Christian 1971- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2016]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332647
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332647
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332647
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332647
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332647
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332647
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332647
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332647
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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (162 Seiten)
ISBN:9781785332647
DOI:10.1515/9781785332647