"Anthropologists have long looked to forager-cultivator cultures for insights into human lifeways. But they have often not been attentive enough to locals' horizons of concern and to the enormous disparity in population size between these groups and other societies. Us, Relatives explores...

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1. Verfasser:	Bird-David, Nurit, 1951- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Schriftenreihe:	Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 12.
Schlagworte:	Hunting and gathering societies > South Asia. Families > South Asia. Human-animal relationships > South Asia. Chasseurs-cueilleurs > Asie méridionale. Familles > Asie méridionale. Relations homme-animal > Asie méridionale. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture. Families Human-animal relationships Hunting and gathering societies Ethnologie. Wildbeuter. Gemeinschaft. South Asia
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Zusammenfassung:	"Anthropologists have long looked to forager-cultivator cultures for insights into human lifeways. But they have often not been attentive enough to locals' horizons of concern and to the enormous disparity in population size between these groups and other societies. Us, Relatives explores how scalar blindness skews our understanding of these cultures. Drawing on her long-term research with a community of South Asian foragers, Nurit Bird-David provides a scale-sensitive ethnography of these people as she encountered them in the late 1970s and reflects on the intellectual journey that led her to new understandings of their lifeways and horizons. She elaborates on Indigenous modes of 'being many' that have been eclipsed by scale-blind anthropology, which generally uses its large-scale conceptual language of persons, relations, and ethnic groups for even tiny communities. Through the idea of pluripresence, Bird-David reveals a mode of plural life that encompasses a diversity of humans and nonhumans through notions of kinship and shared humanity. She argues that this mode of belonging subverts the modern ontological touchstone of 'imagined communities, ' rooted not in sameness among dispersed strangers but in intimacy among relatives, whatever their form"--Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xv, 276 pages)
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780520966680 0520966686