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Introduction: Cutting and Connecting: ‘Afrinesian’ Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange
Knut Christian Myhre
Chapter 1. Kuru, AIDS, and Witchcraft: Reconfiguring Culpability in Melanesia and Africa
Isak Niehaus
Chapter 2. Law, Opacity, and Information in Urban Gambia
Niklas Hultin
Chapter 3. From Cutting to Fading: A Relational Perspective on Marriage Exchange and Sociality in Rural Gambia
Tone Sommerfelt
Chapter 4. Gathering up Mutual Help: Work, Personhood, and Relational Freedoms in Tanzania and Melanesia
Daivi Rodima-Taylor
Chapter 5. Rethinking Ethnographic Comparison: Persons and Networks in Africa and Melanesia
Richard Vokes
Chapter 6. Membering and Dismembering: The Poetry and Relationality of Animal Bodies in Kilimanjaro
Knut Christian Myhre
Chapter 7. The Place of Theory: Rights, Networks, and Ethnographic Comparison
Harri Englund and Thomas Yarrow
Afterword
Adam Reed
Index
Cutting and Connecting
'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange
Edited by Knut Christian Myhre
Afterword by Adam Reed
162 pages, 1 illus., index
ISBN 978-1-78533-263-0 Pb Published (March 2016)
eISBN 978-1-78533-264-7 eBook