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Regimes of ignorance : anthropological perspectives on the production and reproduction of non-knowledge / edited by Roy Dilley and Thomas G. Kirsch.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; Volume 29.
- Methodology and History in Anthropology ; Volume 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Philosophy.
- Ethnology.
- Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)--Social aspects.
- Ignorance (Theory of knowledge).
- Ethnopsychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. Knowledge does not colonize the space of ignorance in the progressive march of science; rather, knowledge and ignorance are mutually shaped in social and political domains of partial, shifting, and temporal relationships. This volume’s ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy, as well as the wider implications these ideas have for anthropology and related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.
- Contents:
- Regimes of Ignorance; Methodology and History in Anthropology; Regimes of Ignorance - Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge - Edited by Roy Dilley and Thomas G. Kirsch; Contents; Regimes of Ignorance - An Introduction - Thomas G. Kirsch and Roy Dilley; Chapter 1 Mind the Gap - On the Other Side of Knowing - Carlo Caduff; Chapter 2 Ignoring Native Ignorance - Epidemiological Enclosures of Not-Knowing Plague in Inner Asia - Christos Lynteris
- Chapter 3 Managing Pleasurable Pursuits - Utopic Horizons and the Arts of Ignoring and 'Not Knowing'among Fine Woodworkers - Trevor H.J. MarchandChapter 4 Ignorant Bodies and the Dangers of Knowledge in Amazonia - Casey High; Chapter 5 What Do Child Sex Offenders Not Know? - John Borneman; Chapter 6 Problematic Reproductions - Children, Slavery and Not-Knowing in Colonial French West Africa - Roy Dilley; Chapter 7 Power and Ignorance in British India - The Native Fetish of the Crown - Leo Coleman; Chapter 8 Secrecy and the Epistemophilic Other - Thomas G. Kirsch; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781782388395
- 1782388397
- OCLC:
- 935495376
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