Property, Substance, and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things Strathern Marilyn
Property, Substance, and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things Strathern Marilyn In engaging essays, celebrated anthropologist Marilyn Strathern reflects on the complexities of social…
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Property, Substance, and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things Strathern Marilyn
In engaging essays, celebrated anthropologist Marilyn Strathern reflects on the complexities of social life.Property, Substance, and Effect draws on Marilyn Strathern's longstanding interest in the reification of social relations. How new relations are brought into being is among the many questions about property, ownership, and knowledge that these essays bring together.Twenty years have not diminished the interest in the book's opening challenge: if one were inventing a method of enquiry by which to configure the complexity of social life, one might wish to invent something like the anthropologist's ethnographic practice. If the world is shrinking in terms of resources and access to them, it is expanding in terms of new candidates for proprietorship.
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