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Experiments in Holism


Experiments in Holism

Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology
1. Aufl.

von: Ton Otto, Nils Bubandt

104,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 09.11.2010
ISBN/EAN: 9781444324433
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 336

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<b>Experiments in Holism</b> <p><i>Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology</i> presents a series of essays that critically examine the ongoing relevance of holism and its theoretical and methodological potential in today’s world. Contributions from a diverse collection of leading anthropologists reveal how recent critiques of the holistic approach have not led to its wholesale rejection, but rather to a panoply of experiments that critically reassess and reemploy holism. The essays focus on aspects of holism including its utilization in current ethnographic research, holistic considerations in cultural anthropology, the French structuralist tradition, the predominantly English tradition of social anthropology, and many others. Collectively, the essays show how holism is simultaneously central to, and problematically a part of, the theory and practice of anthropology. <i>Experiments in Holism</i> reveals how contemporary attempts to rescale and retool anthropology entail new ways of coming to terms with anthropology’s heritage of holism, seeking to obviate its current excesses while recapturing its critical potential to meet the challenges of our contemporary world.
<p>Acknowledgments vii</p> <p>List of Contributors ix</p> <p>1. Anthropology and the Predicaments of Holism 1 <br /><i>Nils Bubandt and Ton Otto</i></p> <p><b>Part 1 Rethinking Holism in Ethnographic Practice 17</b></p> <p>2. Beyond the Whole in Ethnographic Practice? Introduction to Part 1 19 <br /><i>Ton Otto and Nils Bubandt</i></p> <p>3. Holism and the Expectations of Critique in Post-1980s Anthropology: Notes and Queries in Three Acts and an  Epilogue 28 <br /><i>George E. Marcus</i></p> <p>4. Worlding the Matsutake Diaspora: Or, Can Actor–Network Theory Experiment With Holism? 47 <br /><i>Anna Tsing</i></p> <p>5. The Whole Beyond Holism: Gambling, Divination, and Ethnography in Cuba 67 <br /><i>Martin Holbraad</i></p> <p><b>Part 2 Beyond Cultural Wholes? Wholes are Parts, and Parts are Wholes 87</b></p> <p>6. Beyond Cultural Wholes? Introduction to Part 2 89 <br /><i>Ton Otto and Nils Bubandt</i></p> <p>7. The Whole is a Part: Intercultural Politics of Order and Change 102 <br /><i>Marshall Sahlins</i></p> <p>8. Lingual and Cultural Wholes and Fields 127 <br /><i>Alan Rumsey</i></p> <p>9. Deep Wholes: Fractal Holography in Trobriand Agency and Culture 150<br /><i>Mark Mosko</i></p> <p><b>Part 3 Beyond Structural Wholes? Encompassment, Collectives, and Global Systems 175</b></p> <p>10. Beyond Structural Wholes? Introduction to Part 3 177 <br /><i>Nils Bubandt and Ton Otto</i></p> <p>11. Louis Dumont and a Holist Anthropology 187 <br /><i>Bruce Kapferer</i></p> <p>12. From Wholes to Collectives: Steps to an Ontology of Social Forms 209 <br /><i>Philippe Descola</i></p> <p>13. Holism and the Transformation of the Contemporary Global Order 227 <br /><i>Jonathan Friedman</i></p> <p><b>Part 4 Beyond Social Wholes? Holistic Practice: Cosmology, History, and the Continuity of Life 249</b></p> <p>14. Beyond Social Wholes? Introduction to Part 4 251 <br /><i>Nils Bubandt and Ton Otto</i></p> <p>15. Proportional Holism: Joking the Cosmos Into the Right Shape in North Asia 262 <br /><i>Rane Willerslev and Morten Axel Pedersen</i></p> <p>16. One Past and Many Pasts: Varieties of Historical Holism in Melanesia and the West 279 <br /><i>Eric Hirsch and Daniele Moretti</i></p> <p>17. Drawing Together: Materials, Gestures, Lines 299 <br /><i>Tim Ingold</i></p> <p>Index 314</p> <p> </p>
<p><b>Ton Otto</b> is Professor of Anthropology and Ethnography at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Professor and Research Leader at The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. His most recent publications include the co-edited volumes <i>Tradition and Agency: Tracing Cultural Continuity and Invention</i> (2005, with Poul Pedersen) and <i>Warfare and Society: Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives</i> (2006, with Henrik Thrane and Helle Vandkilde). </p> <p><b>Nils Bubandt</b> is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University and co-editor-in-chief of Ethnos. He is the co-author of <i>Imagining Nature: Practices of Cosmology and Identity</i> (2003, with Andreas Roepstorff and Kalevi Kull), and has published numerous articles on topics such as forgery, witchcraft, globalization, and conflict.
<p><i>Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology</i> presents a series of essays that critically examine the ongoing relevance of holism and its theoretical and methodological potential in today’s world. Contributions from a diverse collection of leading anthropologists reveal how recent critiques of the holistic approach have not led to its wholesale rejection, but rather to a panoply of experiments that critically reassess and reemploy holism. The essays focus on aspects of holism including its utilization in current ethnographic research, holistic considerations in cultural anthropology, the French structuralist tradition, the predominantly English tradition of social anthropology, and many others. Collectively, the essays show how holism is simultaneously central to, and problematically a part of, the theory and practice of anthropology. <i>Experiments in Holism</i> reveals how contemporary attempts to rescale and retool anthropology entail new ways of coming to terms with anthropology’s heritage of holism, seeking to obviate its current excesses while recapturing its critical potential to meet the challenges of our contemporary world.</p>
The term "holism" is shorthand for a central predicament in anthropology:  human situations are culturally structured, but individuals, who participate in more than one cultural "whole," can sometimes change the rules.  This volume explores the theoretical space between those two aspects of the human condition.  <br /> <i>Richard Handler, University of Virginia</i><br /> <br /> <p> </p> <p>These authors persuasively, even passionately, refocus the analysis of socio-cultural ontology.  In showing how the simplistic rejection of past holisms undermined anthropology's fundamental commitments, they instead devise ingeniously critical new perspectives reflecting today's massively reconfigured and variegated understandings of context.<br /> <i>Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University)</i></p> <p> </p> <p>In this capacious and brilliantly-edited collection, holism no longer suggests a totalizing project, but rather an indispensable toolkit of world-making strategies.  The innovative essays gathered here map a new, multi-scaled landscape of Anthropological research.<br /> <i>James Clifford, University of California, Santa Cruz.<br /> </i>Author of The Predicament of Culture.</p> <p> </p> <p><i>‘</i>Holism' does its magic again. This is an extraordinarily interesting commentary on the present state of anthropology that would never have come together without the editors' pursuit of an apparently unfashionable idea.<br /> <i>Marilyn Strathern</i></p>

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