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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815332603321

Titolo

How do we know? : evidence, ethnography, and the making of anthropological knowledge / / edited by Liana Chua, Casey High, and Timm  Lau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

Newcastle : , : Cambridge Scholars Pub., , 2008

ISBN

1-4438-1029-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChuaLiana

HighCasey

LauTimm

Disciplina

301.01

Soggetti

Anthropology - Philosophy

Ethnology

Libros electrónicos.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; OLD AND NEW REFLECTIONS; "WE SING ABOUT WHAT WE CANNOT TALK ABOUT"; AUDIO-VISUAL EVIDENCE AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE; END OF THE SPEAR; PRAGMATIC EVIDENCE AND THE POLITICS OF EVERYDAY PRACTICE; THE VODOU PRIEST WHO LOST HIS SPIRIT; ENMITIES AND INTROSPECTION; UNDERSTANDING TIBETAN SHAME AND HIERARCHY THROUGH EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE IN FIELDWORK; VIRTUAL RETURNS; AFTERWORD; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Since its inception, modern anthropology has stood at the confluence of two mutually constitutive modes of knowledge production: participant-observation and theoretical analysis. This unique combination of practice and theory has been the subject of recurrent intellectual and methodological debate, raising questions that strike at the very heart of the discipline. How Do We Know? is a timely contribution to emerging debates that seek to understand this relationship through the theme of eviden...