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On the Order of Chaos: Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos

 
9781845450236: On the Order of Chaos: Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos
ISBN 10: 184545023X ISBN 13: 9781845450236
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Over the past two decades, "chaos theory" - the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder - has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to adapt the insights of chaos theory to their studies of human cultural and social systems. Several of the world's leading anthropologists, such as Roy Wagner, Marshall Sahlins, Marilyn Strathern, and Arjun Appadurai - have similarly drawn upon particular elements of chaos theory for their inspiration, but as yet there is no focused, comprehensive treatment of the applicability of chaos theory to anthropology's distinctive ethnographic and cross-cultural materials. This edited volume fills the gap, with both accessible theoretical discussions of chaos theory applications in anthropology and detailed ethnographic and historical illustrations from Africa and Melanesia.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark S. Mosko is Professor of Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University.

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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
184545023X
ISBN 13 
9781845450236
Einband
Bibliothekseinband
Anzahl der Seiten
296
Herausgeber
Mosko Mark S., Damon Fred
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