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Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people).

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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 insights of chaos theory to their studies of human cultural and social systems. Several of the world’s leading anthropologists, such as Roy Wagner, Marshall Sahlins, Marilyn Strathern, and Arjun Appadurai – have similarly drawn upon particular elements of chaos theory for their inspiration, but as yet there is no focused, comprehensive treatment of the applicability of chaos theory to anthropology’s distinctive ethnographic and cross-cultural materials. This edited volume fills the gap, with both accessible theoretical discussions of chaos theory applications in anthropology and detailed ethnographic and historical illustrations from Africa and Melanesia.

Chaotic behavior in systems. --- Ethnology --- Methodology. --- Philosophy. --- Chaos in systems --- Chaos theory --- Chaotic motion in systems --- Differentiable dynamical systems --- Dynamics --- Nonlinear theories --- System theory --- Ethnology - Philosophy --- Ethnology - Methodology --- Chaotic behavior in systems

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Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier's work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their fieldwork. From the nature-culture debate to the fabrication of hereditary political systems, from transforming gender relations to the problems of the Christianization of indigenous peoples, these chapters demonstrate both the diversity of anthropological topics and the opportunity for constructive dialogue around shared methodological and theoretica

Ethnology --- Big man (Melanesia) --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Philosophy. --- Methodology. --- Philosophie --- Méthodologie --- Godelier, Maurice. --- #SBIB:39A3 --- Big men (Melanesia) --- Big woman (Melanesia) --- Big women (Melanesia) --- Bigmanship --- Bikfela man --- Political anthropology --- Political customs and rites --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Godelier, Maurice, --- Ko-te-li-ya, Mo-li-ssu --- Méthodologie --- Methodology --- Philosophy --- Godelier, Maurice --- Ethnologie --- Anthropologie --- Mélanésie