Thinking Through Things

<p>Drawing upon the work of some of the most influential theorists in the field, <em>Thinking Through Things</em> demonstrates the quiet revolution growing in anthropology and its related disciplines, shifting its philosophical foundations. The first text to offer a direct and provocative challenge to disciplinary fragmentation - arguing for the futility of segregating the study of artefacts and society - this collection expands on the concerns about the place of objects and materiality in analytical strategies, and the obligation of ethnographers to question their assumptions and approaches. </p><p>The team of leading contributors put forward a positive programme for future research in this highly original and invaluable guide to recent developments in mainstream anthropological theory. </p> <p>1. Thinking through things 2. ‘Smuk is king’ 3. Taonga Maori 4. The ‘legal thing’ in Swaziland 5. Collection as a way of being 6. Separating and containing people and things in Mongolia 7. Talismans of thought 8. Differentiation and encompassment 9. The power of powder</p>