Marilyn Strathern is professor emeritus of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of many books, including Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life, also published by HAU Books. Eric Hirsch is professor of anthropology at Brunel University London, conducting research in Papua New Guinea. He is author of Ancestral Presence: Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands.

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• Introduction: Working Through Other People’s Descriptionsby Eric Hirsch ixPreface by Marilyn Strathern xxxvchapter 1The Ethnographic Effect I 1part iEFFECTS 25chapter 2Pre-figured Features 29chapter 3The Aesthetics of Substance 45chapter 4Refusing Information 63Property, Substance and Effectviiipart iiPROPERTIES 85chapter 5New Economic Forms: A Report 87chapter 6The New Modernities 113chapter 7Divisions of Interest and Languages of Ownership 131part iiiSUBSTANCES 153chapter 8Potential Property: Intellectual Rights and Property in Persons 155chapter 9What is Intellectual Property After? 173chapter 10Puzzles of Scale 197concludedThe Ethnographic Effect II 221Notes 251Bibliography 293Index 317

Marilyn Strathern is professor emeritus of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of many books, including Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life, also published by HAU Books. Eric Hirsch is professor of anthropology at Brunel University London, conducting research in Papua New Guinea. He is author of Ancestral Presence: Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands.

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• Introduction: Working Through Other People’s Descriptionsby Eric Hirsch ixPreface by Marilyn Strathern xxxvchapter 1The Ethnographic Effect I 1part iEFFECTS 25chapter 2Pre-figured Features 29chapter 3The Aesthetics of Substance 45chapter 4Refusing Information 63Property, Substance and Effectviiipart iiPROPERTIES 85chapter 5New Economic Forms: A Report 87chapter 6The New Modernities 113chapter 7Divisions of Interest and Languages of Ownership 131part iiiSUBSTANCES 153chapter 8Potential Property: Intellectual Rights and Property in Persons 155chapter 9What is Intellectual Property After? 173chapter 10Puzzles of Scale 197concludedThe Ethnographic Effect II 221Notes 251Bibliography 293Index 317

Marilyn Strathern is professor emeritus of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of many books, including Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life, also published by HAU Books. Eric Hirsch is professor of anthropology at Brunel University London, conducting research in Papua New Guinea. He is author of Ancestral Presence: Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands.

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• Introduction: Working Through Other People’s Descriptionsby Eric Hirsch ixPreface by Marilyn Strathern xxxvchapter 1The Ethnographic Effect I 1part iEFFECTS 25chapter 2Pre-figured Features 29chapter 3The Aesthetics of Substance 45chapter 4Refusing Information 63Property, Substance and Effectviiipart iiPROPERTIES 85chapter 5New Economic Forms: A Report 87chapter 6The New Modernities 113chapter 7Divisions of Interest and Languages of Ownership 131part iiiSUBSTANCES 153chapter 8Potential Property: Intellectual Rights and Property in Persons 155chapter 9What is Intellectual Property After? 173chapter 10Puzzles of Scale 197concludedThe Ethnographic Effect II 221Notes 251Bibliography 293Index 317