ISBN:
9780415106580
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (204 p)
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge
DDC:
306/.01
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Anthropology poses an explicit challenge to standard notions of scientific knowledge. It claims to produce genuine insights into the workings of culture in general on the basis of individual social experience in the field. Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge traces the process from the ethnographic experience to the analytical results, showing how fieldwork enables the ethnographer to arrive at an understanding, not only of `culture' and `society', but also of the processes by which cultures and societies are transformed. The contributors challenge the distinction between subjectiv
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; 1 Incomers and fieldworkers: a comparative study of social experience; 2 Making sense of new experience; 3Vicarious and sensory knowledge of chronology and change: ageing inrural France; 4 Veiled experiences: exploring female practices of seclusion; 5 Shared reasoning in the field: reflexivity beyond the author; 6The mysteries of incarnation: some problems to do with the analyticlanguage of practice; 7 On the relevance of common sense for anthropological knowledge
Description / Table of Contents:
8Where the community reveals itself: reflexivity and moral judgment inKarpathos, Greece9 Time, ritual and social experience; 10Space and the 'other': social experience and ethnography in the Kalaharidebate; 11 Events and processes: marriages in Libya, 1932-79; 12 Anthropological knowledge incorporated: discussion; Name index; Subject index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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