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Auteur(s) : Bird-David, Nurit (1951-....)
Titre(s) : Us, relatives [Texte imprimé] : scaling and plural life in a forager world / Nurit Bird-David
Publication : Oakland, California : University of California press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xv, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection : Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 12
Lien à la collection : Ethnographic studies in subjectivity
Comprend : Prologue : one of us ; Introduction : scalar blindness and forager worlds ; Downscale
1. Maps of home ; At home : setting and mind setting ; Downscale 2. Census of relatives
; Living plurally : mobility and visiting ; Downscale 3. Tree of relatives ; The
sib matrix : dyadic and sequential logic ; Couples and children : gender, caregiving,
and foraging together ; Downscale 4. Taxonomy of nonhuman relatives ; Nonhuman kin
: unispecies societies and plural communities ; Downscale 5. Family and ethnonym
; A continuum of relatives : othering and us-ing ; The state's foragers : the scale
of multiculturalism ; Epilogue : pluripresent and imagined communities.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-264) and index
"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
Sujet(s) : Chasseurs-cueilleurs -- Asie du Sud
Famille -- Anthropologie -- Asie du Sud
Relations homme-animal -- Asie du Sud
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520293403. - ISBN 0520293401. - ISBN 9780520293427. - ISBN 0520293428. -
ISBN 9780520966680 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb452067555
Notice n° :
FRBNF45206755
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