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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Humans Nevertheless -- Reclaiming Anthropos -- Sociality and Human Emergence -- Ethnographic Socialities: The Legacy of Strathern -- General Human Sociality and Its Variety of Forms -- Sociality Extended -- The Contributions -- Notes -- 1 The Evanescence of Experience and How to Capture It -- Whale's Teeth and Their Uses -- Extract from Fieldnotes, Suva, Sunday, 17 June 2007 -- Edited Extract from Fieldnotes, 22 July 2007 -- Enduring Relationship -- Extract from Recorded Interview with Makareta, July 2007 -- The Evanescence of Experience -- Notes -- 2 The Mirror of the Material -- The Mirror as a Bridge between the Material and the Immaterial -- Chairs, Thrones and Palanquins -- Paper Dolls and Statues: Icons of Invisible Presences -- Things versus Objects: Some More General Comparisons -- From the iPod to the iGod: Individualizing Technologies -- Things, Objects and Agency -- 3 Human at Risk -- Introduction -- The Continuity of Life and the Plurality of Life Forms -- Extending and Contracting Sociality through Ritual -- Conclusion -- 4 Connectedness through Separation -- Introduction -- Separation and Connectedness -- Comparing Tibet and Mongolia -- Mongolia: Engaging the Spirits -- Establishing a Fortunate Relation: Offerings to the Spirits of the Land -- Maintaining Separation, Containing Integrity and Establishing Relations -- Tibet: Enclosing Domestic Space -- Creating Boundaries, Establishing Domains and Enabling Relations -- Separation as Protection -- Conclusion: Connectedness through Separation -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 5 Egalitarian and Non-Egalitarian Sociality -- Introduction -- Food and Property -- Kinship and Social Relations -- Leadership and Followership |
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And the Future -- Summary and Conclusion -- 6 Peaceful Sociality -- The Orang Asli -- External Influences -- Trade -- Slave Raiding -- Continuing Danger from the Outside World -- Effects of External Influences -- Internal Influences -- Orang Asli Ontology -- Personal Autonomy and Social Solidarity -- Views of Human Nature -- Childrearing -- Conclusions -- Note -- 7 The Point of No Return -- Part One -- Part Two: The Next Thirty Years -- Part Three: My 'Final' Return -- The Role of the State -- Final Vignette -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- 8 Sociality, Socialities and Sociality as a Causal Force -- The Broad Brush -- Sociality-e -- Sociality-h -- Another Broad Brush -- The Institute Gets Started -- Sociality as a Ground for Institutionalising -- Sociality as a Force in Itself -- Concluding -- 9 Monism, Dualism and Participant Observation -- Leenhardt on Persons -- Howell on the Person -- Monism, Dualism and Participant Observation -- A Theoretical Move -- Notes -- 10 Kinship Particularism and the Project of Anthropological Comparison -- The Purported Death of Kinship Studies -- Rethinking Needham's and Schneider's Declarations -- Cultural Particularism and the Question of Comparison -- From Function to Meaning -- From Referential to Semiotic Theory of Meaning -- The Critique of Isolable Analytic Domains -- A Semiotic Model of Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Unit Definition and Relation -- Naturalization: The Given and the Created -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Afterword: Extensions -- Extension as Expansion -- Extension at Its Limits -- Postscript -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"What distinguishes humans from nonhuman 'others'? And how do these distinctions shape human sociality and the ways that humans relate to their others? Human Nature and Social Life brings together a collection of articles by prominent anthropologists to address these questions. The articles show how the fundamentally social nature of humans results in an extension of sociality to virtual, semiotic-material and nonhuman spheres, with humans therefore becoming part of 'extended socialities'. However, as the book's contributors demonstrate, human distinctness significantly bears upon these extended socialities, and the manner in which humans partake in them. Taking an ethnographic approach to its subject, this book demonstrates the continued value of studying the specificities of the human condition, and sets itself as a counterweight to current refutations of human exceptionalism"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social interaction.
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Human behavior.
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Behavior
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human behavior.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Human behavior
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Social interaction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Remme, Jon Henrik Ziegler, editor
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Sillander, Kenneth, editor
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| ISBN |
9781316838921 |
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1316838927 |
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1316838412 |
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9781316838419 |
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9781316831908 |
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1316831906 |
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9781316631218 |
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1316631214 |
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