Mark S. Mosko: On the Order of Chaos

Cover: 9781845450243 | On the Order of Chaos | Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos

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Beschreibung

Over the past two decades, "chaos theory" - the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder - has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to adapt the insights of chaos theory to their studies of human cultural and social systems. Several of the world's leading anthropologists, such as Roy Wagner, Marshall Sahlins, Marilyn Strathern, and Arjun Appadurai - have similarly drawn upon particular elements of chaos theory for their inspiration, but as yet there is no focused, comprehensive treatment of the applicability of chaos theory to anthropology's distinctive ethnographic and cross-cultural materials. This edited volume fills the gap, with both accessible theoretical discussions of chaos theory applications in anthropology and detailed ethnographic and historical illustrations from Africa and Melanesia.

Über den Autor

Mark S. Mosko is Professor of Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

List of Contributors

Preface and Acknowledgements

Prologue
Marilyn Strathern

Chapter 1. Introduction: A (Re)Turn to Chaos: Chaos Theory, the Sciences, and Social Anthropological Theory
Mark S. Mosko

Chapter 2. From Lévi-Strauss to Chaos and Complexity
Jack Morava

Chapter 3. Fractal Figurations: Homologies and Hierarchies in Kabre Culture
Charles Piot

Chapter 4. "Pity" and "Ecstasy": The Problem of Order and Differentiated Difference Across Kula Societies
Frederick H. Damon

Chapter 5. Fractality and the Exchange of Perspectives
José Antonio Kelly

Chapter 6. Fluids and Fractals in Rwanda: Order and Chaos
Christopher C. Taylor

Chapter 7. Peace, War, Sex, and Sorcery: Nonlinear Analogical Transformation in the Early Escalation of North Mekeo Sorcery and Chiefly Practice
Mark S. Mosko

Chapter 8. Afterword: Order Is What Happens When Chaos Loses Its Temper
Roy Wagner

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2005
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781845450243
ISBN-10:	1845450248
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Mosko, Mark S. Damon, Fred
Hersteller:	Berghahn Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark S. Mosko (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.10.2005
Gewicht:	0,432 kg

Artikel-ID: 106962675