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The anthropology of ignorance : an ethnographic approach / edited by Casey High, Ann Kelly, and Jonathan Mair.
Penn Museum Library GN345 .A64 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Culture, Mind, and Society series.
- Culture, Mind, and Society series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Philosophy.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnopsychology.
- Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)--Social aspects.
- Ignorance (Theory of knowledge).
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 220 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Summary:
- "Documents the many relationships and practices that depend on the suspension of knowledge or the generation, deployment, or recognition of ignorance"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Making Ignorance an Ethnographic Object / Jonathan Mair Mair, Jonathan, Ann H. Kelly Kelly, Ann H., Casey High High, Casey 1
- Chapter 2 Sarax and the City: Almsgiving and Anonymous Objects in Dakar, Senega / Gretchen Pfeil Pfeil, Gretchen 33
- Chapter 3 Discourses of the Coming: Ignorance, Forgetting, and Prolepsis in Japanese Life-Historiography / Shunsuke Nozawa Nozawa, Shunsuke 55
- Chapter 4 Evoking Ignorance: Abstraction and Anonymity in Social Networking's Ideals of Reciprocityv / David S. Leitner Leitner, David S. 87
- Chapter 5 Between Knowing and Being: Ignorance in Anthropology and Amazonian Shamanism / Casey High High, Casey 119
- Chapter 6 "I Don't Know Why He Did It. It Happened by Itself": Causality and Suicide in Northwest Greenland / Janne Flora Flora, Janne 137
- Chapter 7 Inhabiting the Temporary: Patience and Uncertainty among Urban Squatters in Buenos Aires / Valeria Procupez Procupez, Valeria 163
- Chapter 8 "Fertility. Freedom. Finally.": Cultivating Hope in the Face of Uncertain Futures among Egg-Freezing Women / Tiffany Romain Romain, Tiffany 189.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0230340822
- 9780230340824
- OCLC:
- 744287251
- Publisher Number:
- 99947908776
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