Ways of knowing : anthropological approaches to crafting experience and knowledge / edited by Mark Harris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Mark, 1969 March 12- editor.

Series:

Methodology and history in anthropology Ways of knowing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Knowledge and learning.

Experience.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2007.

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Conference papers held in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78920-415-1

1-84545-364-6

OCLC:

1089517860