| Description |
1 online resource (215 pages) |
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Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 29 |
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Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 29.
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| Contents |
Regimes of Ignorance An Introduction / Thomas G. Kirsch and Roy Dilley -- Mind the Gap : On the Other Side of Knowing / Carlo Caduff -- Ignoring Native Ignorance : Epidemiological Enclosures of Not-Knowing Plague in Inner Asia / Christos Lynteris -- Managing Pleasurable Pursuits : Utopic Horizons and the Arts of Ignoring and 'Not Knowing' among Fine Woodworkers / Trevor H.J. Marchand -- Ignorant Bodies and the Dangers of Knowledge in Amazonia / Casey High -- What Do Child Sex Offenders Know? / John Borneman -- Problematic Reproductions : Children, Slavery and Not-Knowing in Colonial French West Africa / Roy Dilley -- Power and Ignorance in British India : The Native Fetish of the Crown / Leo Coleman -- Secrecy and the Epistemophilic Other / Thomas G. Kirsch |
| Summary |
Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. Knowledge does not colonize the space of ignorance in the progressive march of science; rather, knowledge and ignorance are mutually shaped in social and political domains of partial, shifting, and temporal relationships. This volume's ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy, as well as the wider implications these ideas have for anthropology and related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) -- Social aspects
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Ethnopsychology.
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ethnopsychology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Ethnology -- Philosophy
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Ethnopsychology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dilley, Roy, 1954- editor.
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Kirsch, Thomas G., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781782388395 |
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1782388397 |
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