Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work. Contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories.

List of Illustrations Introduction: Diagrams beyond Mere Tools Lukas Englemann, Caroline Humphrey, and Christos Lynteris Chapter 1. Revisiting Sigmund Freud's Diagrams of the Mind Ro Spankie Chapter 2. Dis/working with Diagrams: How Genealogies and Maps Obscure Nanoscale Worlds (a Hunter-Gatherer Case) Nurit Bird-David Chapter 3. On Visual Coherence and Visual Excess: Writing, Diagrams, and Anthropological Form Matei Candea Chapter 4. Configurations of Plague: Spatial Diagrams in Early Epidemiology Lukas Engelmann Chapter 5. A Nomadic Diagram: Waddington's Epigenetic Landscape and Anthropology Caroline Humphrey Afterword: Abstraction and Schematization in the Repeated Copying of Designs Philip Steadman Conclusion: The Work of Diagrams Lukas Engelmann, Caroline Humphrey, and Christos Lynteris Index