Building Social Worlds

Barbara Bodenhorn is an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. She has worked in Arctic Alaska since 1980 and in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca since 2004. Her most recent publication is Risky Futures, edited with Olga Ulturgasheva (Berghahn, 2022).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Going Against the Grain, AgainBarbara Bodenhorn, Alicia Fentiman and Mary GoodyChapter 1. Wives into Sisters, Sisters into WivesMarilyn StrathernChapter 2. Fragments of Intimacy and the Reassembling of RelationsBarbara BodenhornChapter 3. The Visible Invisibilities of the Circulation of Women in the Ottoman Mediterranean and Their ImplicationsPaul Sant CassiaChapter 4. The Circulation of Women and Children, and Everybody Else… Half a Century LaterLynne BrydonChapter 5.  Video, Voice and Vygotsky: Narratives of Learning among the Konkomba of Northern GhanaAlicia FentimanChapter 6. Lessons in Milking and Lessons in MathCataline LasernaChapter 7. Singing the Names: Custom and Chronology in Mamprusi Drum HistoriesSusan Drucker BrownAppendix: BAAMYO’S TEXTChapter 8. One Snake is the Biggest in the Pond: Religious Change, Funerals and Linguistic Evidence in MambilaDavid ZeitlynChapter 9. Childrearing through Social Interaction on Rossel Island, Papua New GuineaPenny Brown and Marisa CasillisConclusionFelicia Kafui EtseyAfterwordJohn Keith HartAppendicesIndex

“Building Social Worlds is a fitting tribute to an exceptional scholar and a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right. The introduction is impressively comprehensive.” • Joanna Cook, University College London“I found this book fascinating and I know it will interest many people. The structure of this book works well, as it highlights the multiple aspects of her personality and work.” • Rebecca Empson, University College London