Thinking through things : theorising artefacts ethnographically / edited by Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad and Sari Wastell. - London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2007. - x, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thinking through things / Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, and Sari Wastell -- Smuk is king : the action of cigarettes in a Papua New Guinea prison / Adam Reed -- Taonga Maori : encompassing rights and property in New Zealand / Amiria Henare -- The "legal thing" in Swaziland : res judicata and divine kingship / Sari Wastell -- Collection as a way of being / Andrew Moutu -- Separating and containing people and things in Mongolia / Rebecca Empson -- Talismans of thought : shamanist ontologies and extended cognition in northern Mongolia / Morten Pedersen -- Differentiation and encompassment: a critique of Alfred Gell's theory of the abduction of creativity / James Leach -- The power of powder : multiplicity and motion in the divinatory cosmology of Cuban Ifá / Martin Holbraad.

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Material culture.


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