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Zusatztext "This book is an important stimulus to ongoing debate! and showcases some of the best of recent approaches and challenges to the ways we know what we know." · Ethos Informationen zum Autor Mark Harris 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 Life on the Amazon (2000), Some other Amazonians (ed. with Stephen Nugent, 2004), The Child in the City (ed. with Anna Grimshaw, 2000). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: ‘Ways of Knowing' Mark Harris PART I: PARADIGMS AND POLEMICS Chapter 1. Of Dialectical Germans and Dialectical Ethnographers: Notes from an Engagement with Philosophy Dominic Boyer Chapter 2. Practising an Anthropology of Philosophy: General Reflections and the Swahili Context Kai Kresse Chapter 3. Is Religion a Way of Knowing? Otávio Velho Chapter 4. Deskilling, ‘Dumbing Down’ and the Auditing of Knowledge in the Practical Mastery of Artisans and Academics: An Ethnographer’s Response to a Global Problem Michael Herzfeld PART II: TIME AND THE DISRUPTION OF KNOWING Chapter 5. Knowing Silence and Merging Horizons: The Case of the Great Potosí Cover-Up Tristan Platt with Pablo Quisbert Chapter 6. The Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge in a Colonial Context: The Case of Henri Gaden (1867–1939) Roy Dilley Chapter 7. Embodying Knowledge: Finding a Path in the Village of the Sick Paul Stoller PART III: RETHINKING EMBODIMENT Chapter 8. Crafting Knowledge: The Role of ‘Parsing and Production’ in the Communication of Skill-Based Knowledge among Masons Trevor Marchand Chapter 9. Comm...
