Social Formations of Wonder: Anthropology and Awe - Softcover

 
9780367664329: Social Formations of Wonder: Anthropology and Awe

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This book reveals how wonder works as an index of challenges to the known, the moral, the true and the real. The case studies show how probing wonder can bring us closer to understanding the union of social institutions. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of The Journal of Religious and Political Practice.

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Jaap Timmer is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master of Research program in the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the author of Living with Intricate Futures: Order and Confusion in Imyan Worlds, Irian Jaya, Indonesia (2000). His current interest is in the anthropology of the state, theocracies, and historicity in the Asia-Pacific region.

Matt Tomlinson is Associate Professor in the Departments of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. He is the author of In God's Image: The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity (2009) and Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance (2014).

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ISBN 10:  1138393843 ISBN 13:  9781138393844
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018
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