On the order of chaos social anthropology and the science of chaos /
Over the past two decades, "chaos theory" - the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder - has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to adapt the...
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Table of Contents:
- List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements Prologue ; Marilyn Strathern Chapter 1. Introduction: A (Re)Turn to Chaos: Chaos Theory, the Sciences, and Social Anthropological Theory; Mark S. Mosko Chapter 2. From Lévi-Strauss to Chaos and Complexity; Jack Morava Chapter 3. Fractal Figurations: Homologies and Hierarchies in Kabre Culture; Charles Piot Chapter 4. "Pity" and "Ecstasy": The Problem of Order and Differentiated Difference Across Kula Societies; Frederick H. Damon Chapter 5. Fractality and the Exchange of Perspectives; José Antonio Kelly Chapter 6. Fluids and Fractals in Rwanda: Order and Chaos; Christopher C. Taylor Chapter 7. Peace, War, Sex, and Sorcery: Nonlinear Analogical Transformation in the Early Escalation of North Mekeo Sorcery and Chiefly Practice; Mark S. Mosko Chapter 8. Afterword: Order Is What Happens When Chaos Loses Its Temper; Roy Wagner Bibliography; Contributors; Index