Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge

Tracing the process from the fieldwork to the analysis of results, this book demonstrates how the ethnographer arrives at an understanding not only of 'culture' and 'society', but also of the ways in which cultures and societies evolve.

List of contents

Introduction, Kirsten Hastrup, Peter Hervik; Chapter 1 Incomers and fieldworkers, Tamara Kohn; Chapter 2 Making sense of new experience, Ingrid Rudie; Chapter 3 Vicarious and sensory knowledge of chronology and change, Judith Okely; Chapter 4 Veiled experiences, Karin Ask; Chapter 5 Shared reasoning in the field, Peter Hervik; Chapter 6 The mysteries of incarnation, Angel Diaz de Rada, Francisco Cruces; Chapter 7 On the relevance of common sense for anthropological knowledge, Marian Kempny, Wojciech J. Burszta; Chapter 8 Where the community reveals itself, Pavlos Kavouras; Chapter 9 Time, ritual and social experience, Andre Gingrich; Chapter 10 Space and the 'other', Thomas Widlok; Chapter 11 Events and processes, John Davis; Chapter 12 Anthropological knowledge incorporated, Kirsten Hastrup;

About the author

Kirsten Hastrup, Peter Hervik

Summary

Tracing the process from the fieldwork to the analysis of results, this book demonstrates how the ethnographer arrives at an understanding not only of 'culture' and 'society', but also of the ways in which cultures and societies evolve.

Product details

• Authors: Kirsten Hastrup, Kirsten Hervik Hastrup
• Assisted by: Kirsten Hastrup (Editor), Hastrup Kirsten (Editor), Peter Hervik (Editor), Hervik Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138403895
• ISBN: 978-1-138-40389-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General