Property, substance, and effect : anthropological essays on persons and things
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Property, substance, and effect : anthropological essays on persons and things
Athlone Press, 1999
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-331) and index
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Description
This study draws on the author's long standing interest in the reification of social relations. Its rationale lies in the question about property, ownership and knowledge which these essays bring together. If the world is shrinking in terms of resources and access to them, it is expanding in terms of new candidates for ownership. The essays touch both on the claims people make through relations with other imagined as relations of body substances, and on the increasing visibility of conceptual or intellectual work as property. Whether one lives in Papua New Guinea or Britain, cultural categories are being dissolved and reformed at a tempo that calls for reflection - and for the kind of lateral reflection afforded by ethnographic insight.
Table of Contents
- The ethnographic insight. Part 1 Effects: prefigured features
- the aesthetics of substance
- refusing information. Part 2 Properties: new economic forms - a report
- the new modernities
- divisions of interest and languages of ownership. Part 3 Substances: potential property
- intellectual rights and property in persons
- what is intellectial property after?
- puzzles of scale
- the ethnographic effect II - writing societies, writing persons .
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