{"product_id":"cutting-and-connecting-afrinesian-perspectives-on-networks-relationality-and-exchange-9781785332630","title":"Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tQuestions regarding the origins, mobility, and effects of analytical concepts continue to emerge as anthropology endeavors to describe similarities and differences in social life around the world. \u003cem\u003eCutting and Connecting\u003c\/em\u003e rethinks this comparative enterprise by calling in a conceptual debt that theoretical innovations from Melanesian anthropology owe to network analysis originally developed in African contexts. On this basis, the contributors adopt and employ concepts from recent studies of Melanesia to analyze contemporary life on the African continent and to explore how this exchange influences the borrowed anthropological perspectives. By focusing on ways in which networks are cut and connections are made, these empirical investigations show how particular relationships are created in today’s Africa. In addition, the volume aims for an approach that recasts relationships between theory and place and concepts and ethnography, in a manner that destabilizes the distinction between fieldwork and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“For over two decades the New Melanesian ethnography has extended itself in many useful directions, though rarely, in Africa, has it proved so productive as in this fascinating collection. Working at the analytic crossroads of anthropology, Africa and Melanesia,\u003c\/em\u003e Cutting and Connecting \u003cem\u003eprovides fresh insights into some of today’s most pressing anthropological challenges: theorizing relationality, networks, and exchange; the relation between knowledge practices and place; theory and ethnography; the complications of comparison. The book is a major contribution to anthropological scholarship and promises many theoretical returns.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Todd Sanders\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eBeyond Bodies: Rainmaking and Sense Making in Tanzania\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cutting and Connecting: ‘Afrinesian’ Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKnut Christian Myhre\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Kuru, AIDS, and Witchcraft: Reconfiguring Culpability in Melanesia and Africa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eIsak Niehaus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Law, Opacity, and Information in Urban Gambia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNiklas Hultin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e From Cutting to Fading: A Relational Perspective on Marriage Exchange and Sociality in Rural Gambia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTone Sommerfelt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Gathering up Mutual Help: Work, Personhood, and Relational Freedoms in Tanzania and Melanesia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDaivi Rodima-Taylor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Rethinking Ethnographic Comparison: Persons and Networks in Africa and Melanesia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRichard Vokes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Membering and Dismembering: The Poetry and Relationality of Animal Bodies in Kilimanjaro\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKnut Christian Myhre\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Place of Theory: Rights, Networks, and Ethnographic Comparison\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHarri Englund and Thomas Yarrow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAdam Reed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042384478551,"sku":"9781785332630","price":22.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785332630.jpg?v=1750954001","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cutting-and-connecting-afrinesian-perspectives-on-networks-relationality-and-exchange-9781785332630","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}