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Sean Kingston Publishing Built in Niugini: Constructions in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (The RAI Series): 1

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Brand: Sean Kingston Publishing
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The sequel to the acclaimed Made in Niugini, which explored in unparalleled depth the material world of the Wola comprising moveable artefacts, Built in Niugini continues Paul Sillitoe s project in exemplary fashion, documenting the built environment, architecture and construction techniques in a tour de force of ethnography. But this is more than a book about building houses. Sillitoe also shows how material constructions can serve to further our understandings of intellectual constructions. Allowing his ethnography to take the lead, and paying close attention to the role of tacit understandings and know-how in both skilled work and everyday dwelling, his close experiential analyses inform a phenomenologically inflected discussion of profound philosophical questions such as what can we know of being-in-the-world from startlingly different cultural directions. The book also forms part of a long-term project to understand a radically different economy , which is set in an acephalous order that extends individual freedom and equality in a manner difficult to imagine from the perspective of a nation-state an intriguing way of being-in-the-world that is entwined with tacit aspects of knowing via personal and emotional experience. This brings us back to the explanatory power of a focus on technology, which Sillitoe argues for in the context of materiality approaches that feature prominently in current debates about the sociology of knowledge. Archaeology has long been to the fore in considering technology and buildings, along with vernacular architecture, and Sillitoe contributes to a much-needed dialogue between anthropology and these disciplines, assessing the potential and obstacles for a fruitful rapprochement.

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Brand: Sean Kingston Publishing
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1907774459
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 November 2017
Listed Since: 20 October 2017

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