Thinking through things: theorising artefacts ethnographically/ edited by Amira Henare, Martin Holbraad and Sari Wastell - London: Routledge, 2007. - 237 p.

1. Thinking through things
2. `Smuk is king': the action of cigarettes in a Papua New Guinea Prison
3. Taonga Maori: encompassing rights and property in New Zealand
4. The `legal thing' in Swaziland: res judicata and divine kingship
5. Collection as a way of being
6. Separating and containing people and things in Mongolia
7. Talismans of thought: shamanist ontologies and extended cognition in northern Mongolia
8. Differentiation and encompassment: a critique of Alfred Gell's theory of the abduction of creativity
9. The power of powder: multiplicity and motion in the divinatory cosmology of Cuban Ifa

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Anthropology--Physiological effect
Anthropology--Methodology

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