Knots are well known as symbols of moral relationships. This book develops an exciting new view of this otherwise taken-for-granted image and considers their metaphoric value in and for moral order. In chapters that focus on Japan, China, Europe, South America and in several Pacific Island societies, granular ethnography depicts how knots are deployed to express unity in daily and ritual embodiment, political authority and the cosmos, as well as in social thought. The volume will be of interest to anthropologists and other scholars concerned with metaphor and symbolism, material culture and technology.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2023

ISBN

9781000840216

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Anthropology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
Preface
List of contributors
1 Knots as moral relationship
PART I: Personhood and society
PART II: State and cosmos
PART III: Social thought
Index