TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alter,Joseph S.
AU  - Kao,Philip Y.
TI  - Capturing the Ineffable: An Anthropology of Wisdom 
SN  - 9781487503130
AV  - BD450 .C269 2020
U1  - 301.01 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Wisdom
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - aging
KW  - anthropology
KW  - communities
KW  - consciousness
KW  - culture
KW  - epistemic
KW  - epistemology
KW  - ethnography
KW  - healing
KW  - knowledge
KW  - philosophical
KW  - wisdom
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Grounded in ethnographic case studies that examine experiences from which wisdom emerges, Capturing the Ineffable provides a rigorous analysis of the sociocultural context of wisdom in the contemporary world. Each chapter in the volume deals with different aspects and showcases how communities in different contexts - nursing homes, religious organizations, corporations, and monastic institutions, for example - engage with the ineffability of wisdom. Contributors draw from a range of disciplines and cross-cultural and historical data in order to interpret the meaning and value of wisdom as a human endeavour. This book also represents an anthropological method for evaluating various philosophical and scientific approaches to understanding wisdom, including how wisdom is learned and taught. Readers will be able to appreciate how action, emotion, uncertainty, and cultural systems come to bear on wisdom as a value in human life and expression. In the end, Capturing the Ineffable reveals how the conception and paradoxical nature of wisdom dispels the dichotomies of self/other, structure/agency, known/unknown, nature/culture, and the like. What is at stake is a recasting of wisdom as a particular kind of anthropological endeavour and, thus, a return to and modification of philosophical anthropology
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487517250
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487517250/original
ER  -