The anthropology of ignorance: an ethnographic approach

The anthropology of ignorance: an ethnographic approach

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Documents the many relationships and practices that depend on the suspension of knowledge or the generation, deployment, or recognition of ignorance. CASEY HIGHLecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, London, UK. ANN KELLYLecturer in Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. JONATHAN MAIR Research fellow at St John's College, Cambridge, UK. INDICE: Introduction: Making Ignorance and Ethnographic Object; 'J.Mair', 'A.Kelly'& 'C.High' - PART I: PERSONHOOD - Ontologies of Ignorance: Strategic Knowledge Gaps in Amazonian Shamanism and Anthropological Collaboration; 'C.High' - 'I don't know why he did it. It just happened': Causality and Suicide inNorthwest Greenland; 'J.Flora' - Public Secrets in Public Health: Knowing Notto Know While Making Scientific Knowledge; 'P.W.Geissler' - PART II: EXCHANGE- Sarax and the City: Alms-giving and Anonymous Objects in Dakar, Senegal;' G.Pfeil' - Discourses of the Coming: Ignorance, Forgetting, and Prolepsis in Japanese Life-historiography; 'S.Nozawa' - Evoking Ignorance: Knowing and Unknowing Network Others;' D.S.Leitner' - PART III: TIME - Inhabiting the Temporary:Uncertainty and Patience Among Urban Squatters in Buenos Aires; 'V.Procupez '- 'Fertility. Freedom. Finally.': Cultivating Hope in the Face of Uncertain Futures Among Egg-freezing Women; 'T.Romain - '

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-34082-4
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 240
  • Fecha Publicación: 27/03/2012
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés