Ways of Knowing

New Approaches in the Anthropology of Knowledge and Learning
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-364-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 696 g

Reihe: Methodology & History in Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: ‘Ways of Knowing'

Mark Harris

PART I: PARADIGMS AND POLEMICS

Chapter 1. Of Dialectical Germans and Dialectical Ethnographers: Notes from an Engagement with Philosophy

Dominic Boyer

Chapter 2. Practising an Anthropology of Philosophy: General Reflections and the Swahili Context

Kai Kresse

Chapter 3. Is Religion a Way of Knowing?

Otávio Velho

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

Michael Herzfeld

PART II: TIME AND THE DISRUPTION OF KNOWING

Chapter 5. Knowing Silence and Merging Horizons: The Case of the Great Potosí Cover-Up

Tristan Platt with Pablo Quisbert

Chapter 6. The Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge in a Colonial Context: The Case of Henri Gaden (1867–1939)

Roy Dilley

Chapter 7. Embodying Knowledge: Finding a Path in the Village of the Sick

Paul Stoller

PART III: RETHINKING EMBODIMENT

Chapter 8. Crafting Knowledge: The Role of ‘Parsing and Production’ in the Communication of Skill-Based Knowledge among Masons

Trevor Marchand

Chapter 9. Communities of Practice and Forms of Life: Towards a Rehabilitation of Vision?

Cristina Grasseni

Chapter 10. Seeing with a ‘Sideways Glance’: Visuomotor ‘Knowing’ and the Plasticity of Perception

Greg Downey

PART IV: LEARNING AND REPOSITIONINGS

Chapter 11. Figures Twice Seen: Riles, the Modern Knower and Forms of Knowledge

Tony Crook

Chapter 12. ‘A Weight of Meaninglessness about which there Is Nothing Insignificant’: Abjection and Knowing in an Art School and on a Housing Estate

Amanda Ravetz

Chapter 13. The 4 A’s (Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture): Reflections on a Teaching and Learning Experience

Tim Ingold with Ray Lucas

Chapter 14. A Discussion Concerning Ways of Knowing

Nigel Rapport and Mark Harris

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Harris, Mark
Mark Harris teaches Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. He has conducted fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazon and archival research on a massive rebellion there in the 1830s. His publications include Life on the Amazon (2000), Some other Amazonians (ed. with Stephen Nugent, 2004), The Child in the City (ed. with Anna Grimshaw, 2000).

Mark Harris teaches Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. He has conducted fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazon and archival research on a massive rebellion there in the 1830s. His publications include Life on the Amazon (2000), Some other Amazonians (ed. with Stephen Nugent, 2004), The Child in the City (ed. with Anna Grimshaw, 2000).