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Book SynopsisExplores the ways in which the horizons of human worlds are imagined and engaged
Table of ContentsIntroduction: the cosmological frame in anthropology – Allen Abramson and Martin Holbraad
PART I: Horizons of cosmological wonder: whither the whole?
1. To be a wonder: anthropology, cosmology, and alterity – Michael W. Scott
2. A new man: the cosmological horizons of development, curses, and personhood in Vanuatu – Knut Rio and Annelin Eriksen
3. Auto-relations: doing cosmology and transforming the self the Saiva way – Soumhya Venkatesan
4. Inter-gration and intra-gration in cosmology – Don Handelman
5. Coordinates of body and place: Chinese practices of centring – Stephan Feuchtwang
PART II: Cosmological constitutions: economies, politics, and the cosmos
6. Stranger kings in general: the cosmo-logics of power – Marshall Sahlins
7. Transitional cosmologies: shamanism and postsocialism in Northern Mongolia – Morten Axel Pedersen
8. Portioning loans: cosmologies of wealth and power in Mongolia – Rebecca Empson
9. Maize mill sorcery: cosmologies of substance, production, and accumulation in Central Mozambique – Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
PART III: Embedded modernities: cosmos, science, and the movies
10. A politico-astral cosmology in contemporary Russia – Caroline Humphrey
11. Facebook and the origins of religion – Daniel Miller
12. Don’t yell fire! The origin of humanity goes to the movies – Gregory Schrempp
13. Cosmology and the mythic in Kubrick’s 2001: the imaginary in the aesthetic of cinema – Bruce Kapferer
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