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On the order of chaos social anthropology and the science of chaos - New York Berghahn Books 2005 - xv,276p. ill., map 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-267) and index.

Introduction : A (re)turn to chaos : chaos theory, the sciences, and social anthropological theory / Mark S. Mosko -- From Lévi-Strauss to chaos and complexity / Jack Morava -- Fractal figurations : homologies and hierarchies in Kabre culture / Charles Piot -- "Pity" and "ecstasy" : the problem of order and differentiated difference across Kula societies / Frederick H. Damon -- Fractality and the exchange of perspectives / José Antonio Kelly -- Fluids and fractals in Rwanda : order and chaos / Christopher C. Taylor -- Peace, war, sex, and sorcery : nonlinear analogical transformation in the early escalation of North Mekeo sorcery and chiefly practice / Mark S. Mosko -- Afterword : Order is what happens when chaos loses its temper / Roy Wagner.

ISBN: 9781845450243

LCCN: 2005043636

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ethnology--Philosophy.
Ethnology--Methodology.
Chaotic behavior in systems.

LC Class. No.: GN345 / .O5 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 306.01 / ON-