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Property, Substance and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things

By Marilyn Strathern

Book information

Publisher
Athlone Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0485121492, 9780485121490
LCC
GN671.N5 S83 1999
Open Library ID
OL32812M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10386300 bytes)
Pages
176\176
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

This study draws on the author's long standing interest in the reification of social relations. Its rationale lies in the question about property, ownership and knowledge which these essays bring together. If the world is shrinking in terms of resources and access to them, it is expanding in terms of new candidates for ownership. The essays touch both on the claims people make through relations with other imagined as relations of body substances, and on the increasing visibility of conceptual or intellectual work as property. Whether one lives in Papua New Guinea or Britain, cultural categories are being dissolved and reformed at a tempo that calls for reflection - and for the kind of lateral reflection afforded by ethnographic insight.

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