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Ways of Knowing


Ways of Knowing

New Approaches in the Anthropology of Knowledge and Learning
Methodology & History in Anthropology, Band 18 1. Aufl.

von: Mark Harris

38,99 €

Verlag: Berghahn Books
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 01.10.2007
ISBN/EAN: 9781789204155
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 354

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<p> That there are multiple ways of knowing the world has become a truism. What meaning is left in the sheer familiarity of the phrase? The essays here consider how humans come to know themselves and their worlds. Should anthropologists should seek complexity or simplicity in their analyses of other societies? By going beyond the notion that a way of knowing is a perspective on the world, this book explores paths to understanding, as people travel along them, craft their knowledge and shape experience. The topics examined here range from illness to ignorance, teaching undergraduates in Scotland to learning a Brazilian martial arts dance, Hegels concept of the dialectic to the poetry of a Swahili philosopher. A central concern is how anthropologists can know and write about the silent, theconcealed and theembodied.</p>
<p> List of Figures<br> Acknowledgements</p>
<p> <b><a>Introduction:</a></b><a> ‘Ways of Knowing'</a><br> <i>Mark Harris</i></p>
<p> <b>PART I: PARADIGMS AND POLEMICS</b></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 1.</b> Of Dialectical Germans and Dialectical Ethnographers: Notes from an Engagement with Philosophy<br> <i>Dominic Boyer</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 2.</b> Practising an Anthropology of Philosophy: General Reflections and the Swahili Context<br> <i>Kai Kresse</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 3.</b> Is Religion a Way of Knowing?<br> <i>Otávio Velho</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 4.</b> Deskilling, ‘Dumbing Down’ and the Auditing of Knowledge in the Practical Mastery of Artisans and Academics: An Ethnographer’s Response to a Global Problem<br> <i>Michael Herzfeld</i></p>
<p> <b>PART II: TIME AND THE DISRUPTION OF KNOWING</b></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 5.</b> Knowing Silence and Merging Horizons: The Case of the Great Potosí Cover-Up<br> <i>Tristan Platt</i> with <i>Pablo Quisbert</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 6.</b> The Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge in a Colonial Context: The Case of Henri Gaden (1867–1939)<br> <i>Roy Dilley</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 7.</b> Embodying Knowledge: Finding a Path in the Village of the Sick<br> <i>Paul Stoller</i></p>
<p> <b>PART III: RETHINKING EMBODIMENT</b></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 8.</b> Crafting Knowledge: The Role of ‘Parsing and Production’ in the Communication of Skill-Based Knowledge among Masons<br> <i>Trevor Marchand</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 9.</b> Communities of Practice and Forms of Life: Towards a Rehabilitation of Vision?<br> <i>Cristina Grasseni</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 10.</b> Seeing with a ‘Sideways Glance’: Visuomotor ‘Knowing’ and the Plasticity of Perception<br> <i>Greg Downey</i></p>
<p> <b>PART IV: LEARNING AND REPOSITIONINGS</b></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 11.</b> Figures Twice Seen: Riles, the Modern Knower and Forms of Knowledge<br> <i>Tony Crook</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 12.</b> ‘A Weight of Meaninglessness about which there Is Nothing Insignificant’: Abjection and Knowing in an Art School and on a Housing Estate<br> <i>Amanda Ravetz</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 13.</b> The 4 A’s (Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture): Reflections on a Teaching and Learning Experience<br> <i>Tim Ingold</i> with <i>Ray Lucas</i></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 14.</b> A Discussion Concerning Ways of Knowing<br> <i>Nigel Rapport</i> and <i>Mark Harris</i></p>
<p> Notes on Contributors<br> Index</p>
<p> <b>Mark Harris</b> teaches Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. He has conducted fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazon and archival research on a massive rebellion there in the 1830s. His publications include <i>Life on the Amazon</i> (2000), <i>Some other Amazonians</i> (ed. with Stephen Nugent, 2004), <i>The Child in the City</i> (ed. with Anna Grimshaw, 2000).</p>

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