TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crook,Tony
AU  - Gingrich,Andre
AU  - Goldman,Marcio
AU  - Gow,Peter
AU  - Holbraad,Martin
AU  - Mimica,Jadran
AU  - Moore,Henrietta L.
AU  - Ota,Yoshinobu
AU  - Pina-Cabral,João de
AU  - Silva,Filipe Carreira da
AU  - Toren,Christina
AU  - Viegas,Susana de Matos
AU  - Vieira,Mónica Brito
TI  - The Challenge of Epistemology: Anthropological Perspectives 
SN  - 9780857454355
AV  - GN33 .C5 2011
U1  - 301.01 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Social epistemology
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Theory and Methodology
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: The Challenge of Epistemology --; Chapter 1 Answering Daimã’s Question: The Ontogeny of an Anthropological Epistemology in Eighteenth-Century Scotland --; Chapter 2 Phenomenological Psychoanalysis: The Epistemology of Ethnographic Field Research --; Chapter 3 Plural Modernity: Changing Modern Institutional Forms—Disciplines and Nation-States --; Chapter 4 Ontography and Alterity: Defining Anthropological Truth --; Chapter 5 Exchanging Skin: Making a Science of the Relation between Bolivip and Barth --; Chapter 6 An Afro-Brazilian Theory of the Creative Process: An Essay in Anthropological Symmetrization --; Chapter 7 Intersubjectivity as Epistemology --; Chapter 8 Can Anthropology Make Valid Generalizations? Feelings of Belonging in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest --; Chapter 9 The All-or-Nothing Syndrome an d the Human Condition --; Chapter 10 Evidence in Socio-cultural Anthropology: Limits and Options for Epistemological Orientations --; Chapter 11 Strange Tales from the Road: A Lesson Learned in an Epistemology for Anthropology --; Chapter 12 Epistemology and Ethics: Perspectives from Africa --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Epistemology poses particular problems for anthropologists whose task it is to understand manifold ways of being human. Through their work, anthropologists often encounter people whose ideas concerning the nature and foundations of knowledge are at odds with their own. Going right to the heart of anthropological theory and method, this volume discusses issues that have vexed practicing anthropologists for a long time. The authors are by no means in agreement with one another as to where the answers might lie. Some are primarily concerned with the clarity and theoretical utility of analytical categories across disciplines; others are more inclined to push ethnographic analysis to its limits in an effort to demonstrate what kind of sense it can make. All are aware of the much-wanted differences that good ethnography can make in explaining the human sciences and philosophy. The contributors show a continued commitment to ethnography as a profoundly radical intellectual endeavor that goes to the very roots of inquiry into what it is to be human, and, to anthropology as a comparative project that should be central to any attempt to understand who we are
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857455161
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ER  -