Recasting Anthropological Knowledge

Jeanette Edwards is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Maja Petrović-Šteger is a Junior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Peterhouse, Cambridge.

• 1. Introduction: on recombinant knowledge and debts that inspire Jeanette Edwards and Maja Petrović-Šteger; 2. Writing the parallax gap: an itinerary Debbora Battaglia; 3. Too big to fail Annelise Riles; 4. 'Hybrid custom' and legal description in Papua New Guinea Melissa Demian; 5. Entomological extensions: model huts and fieldworks Ann Kelly; 6. Kinship and the core house: contested ideas of family and place in a Ghanaian resettlement township Thomas Yarrow; 7. Invisible families: imagining relations in families based on same-sex partnerships Aivita Putnina; 8. Knowledge in a critical mode: feminist expertise in design and planning Eeva Berglund; 9. Spools, loops and traces: on etoy encapsulation and three portraits of Marilyn Strathern Maja Petrović-Šteger; 10. Inspiring Strathern Adam Reed.

'… this compilation of papers by her former Ph.D students indicates both the immense applicability of the key concepts and theoretical insights of Strathern, as well as the remarkable range of topics to which this anthropological knowledge may be applied.' Anthropological Notebooks