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Informationen zum Autor Matthew Engelke is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Klappentext Evidence is something that all anthropologists must possess, and the collection of evidence in the field is still one of the main ingredients of what Bronislaw Malinowski once referred to as 'the ethnographer's magic'. And yet, despite this, the concept of evidence has received little sustained attention in print - especially when compared to related concepts, such as 'fieldwork', 'truth', 'facts', and 'knowledge'. All anthropologists use evidence, but precious few reflect on what it is - or isn't. This volume goes some way to correcting this state of affairs. The volume's contributors share the conviction that anthropology can no longer afford to ignore the importance of the concept of evidence, either for the ways in which anthropologists carry out their work (methodology) or present and justify their findings (epistemology). But the real strength of the volume comes from the ways in which the contributors argue the case from a variety of theoretical perspectives. This volume is a first when it comes to the care with which it treats such an important subject, and a rarity in its ability to orchestrate so many different paradigms and points of view. Zusammenfassung The contributors to this volume share the conviction that anthropology can no longer ignore the importance of evidence! either for how anthropologists carry out their work (methodology) or present and justify their findings (epistemology). Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on editor and contributors vii Foreword ix Preface xi 1 Matthew Engelke The objects of evidence 1 2 Maurice Bloch Truth and sight: generalizing without universalizing 21 3 Christopher Pinney The prosthetic eye: photography as cure and poison 31 4 Anthony Good Cultural evidence in courts of law 44 5 Sharad Chari The antinomies of political evidence in post-Apartheid Durban, South Africa 58 6 Stefan Ecks Three propositions for an evidence-based medical anthropology 74 7 Martin Holbraad Definitive evidence, from Cuban gods 89 8 Webb Keane The evidence of the senses and the materiality of religion 105 9 Charles Stafford Linguistic and cultural variables in the psychology of numeracy 122 10 Nicola Knight & Rita Astuti Some problems with property ascription 135 Index 151 ...
