An anthropological trompe l'oeil for a common world [[electronic resource] ] : an essay on the economy of knowledge / / by Alberto Corsín Jiménez

• Autore: Jiménez Alberto Corsín
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.092
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology - Philosophy; Political anthropology - Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Trompe l'oeil -- pt. II. Common world.
• Sommario/riassunto: Our political age is characterized by forms of description as 'big' as the world itself: talk of 'public knowledge' and 'public goods,' 'the commons' or 'global justice' create an exigency for modes of governance that leave little room for smallness itself. Rather than question the politics of adjudication between the big and the small, this book inquires instead into the cultural epistemology fueling the aggrandizement and miniaturization of description itself. Incorporating analytical frameworks from science studies, ethnography, and political and economic theory, this book charts an itiner
• Titolo autorizzato: An anthropological trompe l'oeil for a common world
• ISBN: 0-85745-912-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910479963803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment