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Framing cosmologies : The anthropology of worlds /
How might the anthropological study of cosmologies - the ways in which the horizons of human worlds are imagined and engaged - illuminate understandings of the contemporary world? This book addresses this question by bringing together anthropologists whose research is informed by a concern with cosm...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2014.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The cosmological frame in anthropology / Allen Abramson and Martin Holbraad
- Part I: Horizons of cosmological wonder: whither the whole?
- To be a wonder: anthropology, cosmology, and alterity / Michael W. Scott
- A new man: the cosmological horizons of development, curses, and personhood in Vanuatu / Knut Rio and Annelin Eriksen
- Auto-relations: doing cosmology and transforming the self the Saiva way / Soumhya Venkatesan
- Inter-gration and intra-gration in cosmology / Don Handelman
- Coordinates of body and place: Chinese practices of centring / Stephan Feuchtwang
- Part II: Cosmological constitutions: economies, politics, and the cosmos
- Stranger kings in general: the cosmo-logics of power / Marshall Sahlins
- Transitional cosmologies: shamanism and postsocialism in Northern Mongolia / Morten Axel Pedersen
- Portioning loans: cosmologies of wealth and power in Mongolia / Rebecca Empson
- Maize mill sorcery: cosmologies of substance, production and accumulation in Central Mozambique / Bjorn Enge Bertelsen
- Part III: Embedded modernities: cosmos, science, and the movies
- A politico-astral cosmology in contemporary Russia / Caroline Humphrey
- Facebook and the origins of religion / Daniel Miller
- Don't yell fire! The origin of humanity goes to the movies / Gregory Schrempp
- Cosmology and the mythic in Kubrick's 2001: the imaginary in the aesthetic of cinema / Bruce Kapferer.