Knots
Ethnography of the Moral in Culture and Social Thought
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2023
Book
Hardback
262 pages
978-0-367-46366-3 (ISBN)
Description
Knots are well known as symbols of moral relationships. This book develops an exciting new view of this otherwise taken-for-granted image and considers their metaphoric value in and for moral order. In chapters that focus on Japan, China, Europe, South America and in several Pacific Island societies, granular ethnography depicts how knots are deployed to express unity in daily and ritual embodiment, political authority and the cosmos, as well as in social thought. The volume will be of interest to anthropologists and other scholars concerned with metaphor and symbolism, material culture and technology.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic and Postgraduate
Illustrations
75 s/w Abbildungen, 75 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
75 Halftones, black and white; 75 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
561 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-46366-3 (9780367463663)
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Persons
David Lipset is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, USA.
Eric K. Silverman, former Professor of Anthropology at Wheelock College, is now Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, USA.
Eric K. Silverman, former Professor of Anthropology at Wheelock College, is now Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, USA.
Content
1 Knots as moral relationshiDavid Lipset and Eric K. Silverman:Part 1: Personhood and Society: 2 Knots in Sumo Wrestling and JapanKenji Tierney; 3 Knots and entanglements in JapanEllen Schattschneider: 4 Canoes, knots and the concept of the person in the Sepik (Papua New Guinea)Eric K. Silverman and David Lipset: 5 Making Manus social fabric (Papua New Guinea)Michelle Nayahmui Rooney: Part 2: State and Cosmos: 6 The knotted empire of the Inka StateGary Urton; 7 Weaving metaphors and cosmo-political thought in early ChinaDavid Pankenier: 8 Knots at the edge of order in the Northeast Kula Ring (Papua New Guinea)Frederick H. Damon; 9 The knot in the Pacific body politicSusanne Kuechler; 10 Knots of authority and sanctity in ancient HawaiiAdrienne Kaeppler: Part 3: Social Thought; 11 Anthropology's entanglement with 'Europe'Sarah Green: 12 Afterword: Knots as Moral ReflexivityDavid Lipset and Eric K. Silverman