Description
Book Synopsis Don Handelman’s groundbreaking work in anthropology is showcased in this collection of his most powerful essays, edited by Matan Shapiro and Jackie Feldman. The book looks at the intellectual and spiritual roots of Handelman’s initiation into anthropology; his work on ritual and on “bureaucratic logic”; analyses of cosmology; and innovative essays on Anthropology and Deleuzian thinking. Handelman reconsiders his theory of the forming of form and how this relates to a new theory of the dynamics of time. This will be the definitive collection of articles by one of the most important anthropologists of the late 20th Century.
Trade Review “[This book offers a] perspective on an extraordinary scholar, one whose versatility and energy goes far beyond what anthropology has generally aspired to in the twentieth-century. This book is a taster not simply of a work of stunning theoretical breadth, offering profound heuristics for our discipline, but of the man who has refused to dis-intricate himself and his personal trajectory from its conceptual premises.” • Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology
“This is scintillating – and an engaging and compelling book… It is an extraordinary comment on the versatility and energy of twentieth century socio-cultural anthropology.” • Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge
“An ambitious retrospective of Don Handelman’s intellectual development… An invaluable resource for scholars of anthropology and ritual studies.” • Donna J. Young, University of Toronto Scarborough
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Matan Shapiro
Part I: Some Significant Formative Influences
Chapter 1. Henry Rupert, Washo Shaman
Chapter 2. Tracing Bureaucratic Logic through Surprise and Abduction
Part II: Forming Form: Ritual and Bureaucratic Logic
Chapter 3. Why Ritual in Its Own Right? How So?
Chapter 4. Bureaucratic Logic
Chapter 5. Bureaucratic Logic, Bureaucratic Aesthetics: The Opening Event of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in Israel
Part III: Cosmological Trajectories
Chapter 6. Passages to Play: Paradox and Process
Chapter 7. Framing Hierarchically, Framing Moebiusly
Chapter 8. Inter-gration and Intra-gration in Cosmology
Part IV: Deleuzian Intersections
Chapter 9. Self-Exploders, Self-Sacrifice, and the Rhizomic Organization of Terrorism
Chapter 10. Thinking Moebiusly: Can We Learn about Ritual from Cinema with Mulholland Drive?
Chapter 11. Folding and Enfolding Walls: Statist Imperatives and Bureaucratic Aesthetics in Divided Jerusalem
Epilogue: Forming Form, Folding Time (Toward Dynamics Through an Anthropology of Form)
Index
