Making knowledge: explorations of the indissoluble relation between mind, body and environment

Making Knowledge presents the work of leading anthropologists who promote pioneering approaches to understanding the nature and social constitution of human knowledge. The book offers a progressive interdisciplinary approach to the subject and covers a rich and diverse ethnography INDICE: "Preface (Trevor H.J. Marchand, School of Oriental and African Studies). Introduction: Making knowledge: explorations of the indissoluble relation between minds, bodies, and environment (Trevor H.J. Marchand, School of Oriental and African Studies). 1. Practice without theory: a neuroanthropologicalperspective on embodied learning (Greg Downey, Macquarie University). 2. Learning to listen: auscultation and the transmission of auditory knowledge (Tom Rice, University of Exeter). 3. The craft of skilful learning: Kazakh womens everyday craft practices in western Mongolia (Anna Odland Portisch, School of Oriental and African Studies). 4. Something to talk about: notation and knowledge-making among Central Slovak lace-makers (Nicolette Makovicky, Wolfson College, Oxford). 5. Embodied cognition and communication: studies with British finewoodworkers (Trevor H.J. Marchand, School of Oriental and African Studies). 6. Footprints through the weather-world: walking, breathing, knowing (Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen). 7. Unconscious culture and conscious nature: exploring East Javanese conceptions of the person through Bourdieus lens (Konstantinos Retsikas, School of Oriental and African Studies). 8. Learning to weave; weaving to learn ... what? (Soumhya Venkatesan, University of Manchester). 9. Reflections on knowledge practices and the problem of ignorance (Roy Dilley, University of St Andrews). 10. Anthropology of knowledge (Emma Cohen, Max PlanckInstitute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics). Index. "

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-3892-8
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 216
• Fecha Publicación: 10/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés