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Ways of Knowing : New Approaches in the Anthropology of Knowledge and Learning / ed. by Mark Harris.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 18Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2007]Copyright date: 2007Description: 1 online resource (354 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789204155
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.01 22
LOC classification:
  • GN33 .W37 2007eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction ‘WAYS OF KNOWING’ -- Chapter 1 OF DIALECTICAL GERMANS AND DIALECTICAL ETHNOGRAPHERS: NOTES FROM AN ENGAGEMENT WITH PHILOSOPHY -- Chapter 2 PRACTISING AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY: GENERAL REFLECTIONS AND THE SWAHILI CONTEXT -- Chapter 3 IS RELIGION A WAY OF KNOWING? -- 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 -- PART II TIME AND THE DISRUPTION OF KNOWING -- Chapter 5 KNOWING SILENCE AND MERGING HORIZONS: THE CASE OF THE GREAT POTOSÍ COVER-UP -- Chapter 6 THE CONSTRUCTION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE IN A COLONIAL CONTEXT: THE CASE OF HENRI GADEN (1867–1939) -- Chapter 7 EMBODYING KNOWLEDGE: FINDING A PATH IN THE VILLAGE OF THE SICK -- PART III RETHINKING EMBODIMENT -- Chapter 8 CRAFTING KNOWLEDGE: THE ROLE OF ‘PARSING AND PRODUCTION’ IN THE COMMUNICATION OF SKILL-BASED KNOWLEDGE AMONG MASONS -- Chapter 9 COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE AND FORMS OF LIFE: TOWARDS A REHABILITATION OF VISION? -- Chapter 10 SEEING WITH A ‘SIDEWAYS GLANCE’: VISUOMOTOR ‘KNOWING’ AND THE PLASTICITY OF PERCEPTION -- PART IV LEARNING AND REPOSITIONINGS -- Chapter 11 FIGURES TWICE SEEN: RILES, THE MODERN KNOWER AND FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE -- Chapter 12 ‘A WEIGHT OF MEANINGLESSNESS ABOUT WHICH THERE IS NOTHING INSIGNIFICANT’: ABJECTION AND KNOWING IN AN ART SCHOOL AND ON A HOUSING ESTATE -- Chapter 13 THE 4 A’S (ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY, ART AND ARCHITECTURE): REFLECTIONS ON A TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCE -- Chapter 14 A DISCUSSION CONCERNING WAYS OF KNOWING -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction ‘WAYS OF KNOWING’ -- Chapter 1 OF DIALECTICAL GERMANS AND DIALECTICAL ETHNOGRAPHERS: NOTES FROM AN ENGAGEMENT WITH PHILOSOPHY -- Chapter 2 PRACTISING AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY: GENERAL REFLECTIONS AND THE SWAHILI CONTEXT -- Chapter 3 IS RELIGION A WAY OF KNOWING? -- 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 -- PART II TIME AND THE DISRUPTION OF KNOWING -- Chapter 5 KNOWING SILENCE AND MERGING HORIZONS: THE CASE OF THE GREAT POTOSÍ COVER-UP -- Chapter 6 THE CONSTRUCTION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE IN A COLONIAL CONTEXT: THE CASE OF HENRI GADEN (1867–1939) -- Chapter 7 EMBODYING KNOWLEDGE: FINDING A PATH IN THE VILLAGE OF THE SICK -- PART III RETHINKING EMBODIMENT -- Chapter 8 CRAFTING KNOWLEDGE: THE ROLE OF ‘PARSING AND PRODUCTION’ IN THE COMMUNICATION OF SKILL-BASED KNOWLEDGE AMONG MASONS -- Chapter 9 COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE AND FORMS OF LIFE: TOWARDS A REHABILITATION OF VISION? -- Chapter 10 SEEING WITH A ‘SIDEWAYS GLANCE’: VISUOMOTOR ‘KNOWING’ AND THE PLASTICITY OF PERCEPTION -- PART IV LEARNING AND REPOSITIONINGS -- Chapter 11 FIGURES TWICE SEEN: RILES, THE MODERN KNOWER AND FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE -- Chapter 12 ‘A WEIGHT OF MEANINGLESSNESS ABOUT WHICH THERE IS NOTHING INSIGNIFICANT’: ABJECTION AND KNOWING IN AN ART SCHOOL AND ON A HOUSING ESTATE -- Chapter 13 THE 4 A’S (ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY, ART AND ARCHITECTURE): REFLECTIONS ON A TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCE -- Chapter 14 A DISCUSSION CONCERNING WAYS OF KNOWING -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

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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.

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