The Network Inside OutUniversity of Michigan Press, 2000 - 242 pages "Networks" and other artifacts of institutional life--documents, funding proposals, newsletters, organizational charts--are such ubiquitous aspects of the "information age" that they go unnoticed to most observers. In this work, Annelise Riles takes a sophisticated theoretical approach to examine the aesthetics of these artifacts and practices, to learn what their very forms and formats can tell us about knowledge and legality in today's world. The immediate subject of Riles's ethnographic work was a group of Fijian bureaucrats and activists preparing for and participating in the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Participants in this meeting and the activities surrounding it understood themselves to be "focal points" in national, regional, and global "networks." Starting from the premise that anthropologists are "inside" the Network, that is, that they are producers, consumers, and aesthetes, not simply observers, of the artifacts of late modern institutional life, Riles enacts a new ethnographic method for turning the network "inside out." The resulting experiment in the theory and ethnography of transnational institutional practices makes an important contribution to the anthropology of knowledge. With its focus on developing a method for studying transnational phenomena, The Network Inside Out will appeal not only to anthropologists, but also to legal scholars and political scientists. Annelise Riles is Assistant Professor, Northwestern University School of Law, Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation. |
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... clan in negotiations with the government and in ceremonial con- texts . The Whippy clan is internally subdivided into four subclans ( also referred to as " clans " ) , which take their names from each of David Whippy senior's sons ...
... clan in negotiations with the government and in ceremonial con- texts . The Whippy clan is internally subdivided into four subclans ( also referred to as " clans " ) , which take their names from each of David Whippy senior's sons ...
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... clans in terms of “ a tabu against mar- rying outside the family , " while others simply said that it " closes the circle , " or " renews the link , ” or “ blood looks for its own . ” As one clan " leader " explained it to me : Those ...
... clans in terms of “ a tabu against mar- rying outside the family , " while others simply said that it " closes the circle , " or " renews the link , ” or “ blood looks for its own . ” As one clan " leader " explained it to me : Those ...
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... clan is considered a member of his or her fa- ther's clan . Women join their husbands ' clans at marriage , and residence is virilocal . However , a person also may choose to live with his or her mother's kin and to partici- pate fully ...
... clan is considered a member of his or her fa- ther's clan . Women join their husbands ' clans at marriage , and residence is virilocal . However , a person also may choose to live with his or her mother's kin and to partici- pate fully ...
Contents
Inside Out | 1 |
Sociality Seen Twice | 23 |
Infinity within the Brackets | 70 |
Copyright | |
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