Experiments in Holism Theory and Practice in

Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropologypresents a series of essays from leading anthropologists that critically reexamine the relevance of holism as a foundational tenet of anthropology, and its theoretical and methodological potential in today's world. Represents the first volume to consider the modern role of holism as a central anthropological concern across a wide range of anthropological traditions Critically examines the past and present predicament of holism and its potential for the renewal of future practice Features contributions from leading anthropologists which discuss how anthropology should be re-designed in the context of a changing world Challenges many of contemporary anthropology's central methods, theory, and functions

Ton Otto is Professor of Anthropology and Ethnography at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Professor and Research Leader at The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. His most recent publications include the co-edited volumes: Tradition and Agency: Tracing Cultural Continuity and Invention (2005, with Poul Pedersen) and Warfare and Society: Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives (2006, with Henrik Thrane and Helle Vandkilde).

Nils Bubandt is Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University and co-editor-in-chief of Ethnos. He is the co-author of Imagining Nature: Practices of Cosmology and Identity (2003, with Andreas Roepstorff and Kalevi Kull), and has published numerous articles on topics such as forgery, witchcraft, globalization, and conflict.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Anthropology and the Predicaments of Holism	p. 1
Rethinking Holism in Ethnographic Practice	p. 17
Beyond the Whole in Ethnographic Practice? Introduction to Part 1	p. 19
Holism and the Expectations of Critique in Post-1980s Anthropology: Notes and Queries in Three Acts and an Epilogue	p. 28
Worlding the Matsutake Diaspora: Or, Can Actor-Network Theory Experiment With Holism?	p. 47
The Whole Beyond Holism: Gambling, Divination, and Ethnography in Cuba	p. 67
Beyond Cultural Wholes? Wholes are Parts, and Parts are Wholes	p. 87
Beyond Cultural Wholes? Introduction to Part 2	p. 89
The Whole is a Part: Intercultural Politics of Order and Change	p. 102
Lingual and Cultural Wholes and Fields	p. 127
Deep Wholes: Fractal Holography in Trobriand Agency and Culture	p. 150
Beyond Structural Wholes? Encompassment, Collectives, and Global Systems	p. 175
Beyond Structural Wholes? Introduction to Part 3	p. 177
Louis Dumont and a Holist Anthropology	p. 187
From Wholes to Collectives: Steps to an Ontology of Social Forms	p. 209
Holism and the Transformation of the Contemporary Global Order	p. 227
Beyond Social Wholes? Holistic Practice: Cosmology, History, and the Continuity of Life	p. 249
Beyond Social Wholes? Introduction to Part 4	p. 251
Proportional Holism: Joking the Cosmos Into the Right Shape in North Asia	p. 262
One Past and Many Pasts: Varieties of Historical Holism in Melanesia and the West	p. 279
Drawing Together: Materials, Gestures, Lines	p. 299
Index	p. 314
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