On the order of chaos social anthropology and the science of chaos

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TextPublication details: New York Berghahn Books 2005Description: xv,276p. ill., map 24 cmISBN:

9781845450243

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DDC classification:

306.01 23 ON-

LOC classification:

GN345 .O5 2005

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	General Books	Main Library	306.01 ON- (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		013769

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

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