| Description |
pages cm |
| Series |
The uses of knowledge |
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Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conference
(4th : 1993 : Oxford, England).
Uses of knowledge.
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| Contents |
Introduction: whatever happened to the Enlightenment? / Wendy James -- 1. Managing tradition: 'superstition' and the making of national identity among Sudanese women refugees / Janice Boddy -- 2. History and the discourse of underdevelopment among the Alur of Uganda / Aidan Southall -- 3. Race, culture and - what?: pluralist certainties in the United States / Paul Dresch -- 4. Certain knowledge: the encounter of global fundamentalism and local Christianity in urban south India / Lionel Caplan -- 5. Inventing certainties: the dakwah persona in Malaysia / Shamsul A. B. -- 6. Powerful knowledge in a global Suti cult: reflections on the poetics of travelling theories / Pnina Werbner -- 7. Topophilia, Zionism and 'certainty': making a place out of the space that became Israel again / Robert Paine -- 8. The politics of tolerance: Buddhists and Christians, truth and error in Sri Lanka / Jonathan Spencer |
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9. Changing certainties and the move to a 'global' religion: medical knowledge and Islamization among Anii (Baseda) in the Republic of Benin / Georg Elwert -- 10. Bourdieu and the diviner: knowledge and symbolic power in Yoruba divination / F. Niyi Akinnaso -- 11. Choking on the Quran: and other consuming parables from the western Indian Ocean Front / Michael Lambek -- 12. Cultural certainties and private doubts / Roger Just |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Philosophical anthropology.
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Religion -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Toleration -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Cultural pluralism.
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| Author |
James, Wendy.
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| LC no. |
94045143 |
| ISBN |
0415107911 |
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0415107903 |
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