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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
Contributor:
High, Casey, 1977-
Kelly, Ann, 1980-
Mair, Jonathan, 1977-
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
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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