ISBN:
978-1-78238-838-8
Language:
English
Pages:
215 Seiten
Series Statement:
Methodology and History in Anthropology 29
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Ethnologie Philosophie
;
Wissen
;
Wissen, lokales
;
Wissenschaftstheorie
;
Sozialer Aspekt
;
Ethnopsychologie
;
Theorie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. Knowledge does not colonize the space of ignorance in the progressive march of science; rather, knowledge and ignorance are mutually shaped in social and political domains of partial, shifting, and temporal relationships. This volume's ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy, as well as the wider implications these ideas have for anthropology and related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. Knowledge does not colonize the space of ignorance in the progressive march of science; rather, knowledge and ignorance are mutually shaped in social and political domains of partial, shifting, and temporal relationships. This volume's ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy, as well as the wider implications these ideas have for anthropology and related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.
Description / Table of Contents:
Regimes of Ignorance An Introduction / Thomas G. Kirsch and Roy Dilley -- Mind the Gap : On the Other Side of Knowing / Carlo Caduff -- Ignoring Native Ignorance : Epidemiological Enclosures of Not-Knowing Plague in Inner Asia / Christos Lynteris -- Managing Pleasurable Pursuits : Utopic Horizons and the Arts of Ignoring and 'Not Knowing' among Fine Woodworkers / Trevor H. J. Marchand -- Ignorant Bodies and the Dangers of Knowledge in Amazonia / Casey High -- What Do Child Sex Offenders Know? / John Borneman -- Problematic Reproductions : Children, Slavery and Not-Knowing in Colonial French West Africa / Roy Dilley -- Power and Ignorance in British India : The Native Fetish of the Crown / Leo Coleman -- Secrecy and the Epistemophilic Other / Thomas G. Kirsch.
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