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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480599103321

Titolo

Regimes of ignorance : anthropological perspectives on the production and reproduction of non-knowledge / / edited by Roy Dilley and Thomas G. Kirsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-839-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Methodology and History in Anthropology ; ; Volume 29

Disciplina

301.01

Soggetti

Ethnology - Philosophy

Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) - Social aspects

Ethnopsychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

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