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Comparing impossibilities : selected essays of Sally Falk Moore /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moore, Sally Falk, 1924-2021 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Hau Books, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments and Sources; Foreword by John Borneman; An Oblique Introduction; Part I: The Anthropologist and Anthropology; Chapter One
  • Part of the Story: A Memoir; Chapter Two
  • Comparisons: Possible and Impossible; Chapter Three
  • Encountering Suspicion in Tanzania; Part II: Perspectives on Africa; Chapter Four
  • From Giving and Lending to Selling: Property Transactions Reflecting Historical Changes on Kilimanjaro; Chapter Five
  • History and the Redefinition of Custom on Kilimanjaro
  • Chapter Six
  • Treating Law as Knowledge: Telling Colonial Officers: What to Say to Africans about Running "Their Own" Native CourtsChapter Seven
  • Individual Interests and Organizational Structures: Dispute Settlements as "Events of Articulation"; Chapter Eight
  • Explaining the Present: Theoretical Dilemmas in Processual Ethnography; Part III: Excursions into Mythology; Chapter Nine
  • Descent and Symbolic Filiation; Chapter Ten
  • The Secret of the Men: A Fiction of Chagga Initiation and its Relation to the Logic of Chagga Symbolism; Part IV: Social Fields and Their Politics
  • Chapter Eleven
  • Law and Social Change: The Semi-Autonomous Social Field as an Appropriate Subject of StudyChapter Twelve
  • Political Meetings and the Simulation of Unanimity: Kilimanjaro 1973; Chapter Thirteen
  • Changing African Land Tenure: Reflections on the Incapacities of the State; References; Index