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This study draws on the author's long standing interest in the reification of social relations. Its rationale lies in the question about property, ownership and knowledge which these essays bring together. If the world is shrinking in terms of resources and access to them, it is expanding in terms of new candidates for ownership. The essays touch both on the claims people make through relations with other imagined as relations of body substances, and on the increasing visibility of conceptual or intellectual work as property. Whether one lives in Papua New Guinea or Britain, cultural categories are being dissolved and reformed at a tempo that calls for reflection - and for the kind of lateral reflection afforded by ethnographic insight. ** Contents 6 1 The Ethnographic Effect I 12 I EFFECTS 38 2 Pre-figured Features 42 3 The Aesthetics of Substance 58 4 Refusing Information 77 II PROPERTIES 100 5 New Economic Forms: a Report 102 6 The New Modernities 130 7 Divisions of Interest and Languages of Ownership 151 III SUBSTANCES 172 8 Potential Poperty: Intellectual Rights and Property in Persons 174 9 What is Intellectual Property after? 192 10 Puzzles of Scale 217 1 (concluded) The Eth

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Author

Marilyn Strathern

Publisher

The Athlone Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780485115345

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Anthropology, Social_sciences

Updated

2026-03-24