ISBN:
0415107903
,
0203450841
,
0415107911
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 316 p)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
The uses of knowledge
Parallel Title:
Print version Pursuit of Certainty : Religious and Cultural Formulations
DDC:
128
Keywords:
Toleration Cross-cultural studies
;
Philosophical anthropology
;
Cultural pluralism
;
Religion Cross-cultural studies
;
Konferenzschrift 1993
Abstract:
An exploration of the effect of anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Series editor's preface; Foreword: the pursuit of certainty; Introduction: whatever happened to the Enlightenment?; Managing tradition: 'superstition' and the making of national identity among Sudanese women refugees; History and the discourse of underdevelopment among the Alur of Uganda; Race, culture and; what?: pluralist certainties in the United States; Certain knowledge: the encounter of global fundamentalism and local Christianity in urban south India; Inventing certainties: the dakwah persona in Malaysia
Description / Table of Contents:
Powerful knowledge in a global Sufi cult: reflections on the poetics of travelling theoriesTopophilia, Zionism and 'certainty': making a place out of the space that became Israel again; The politics of tolerance: Buddhists and Christians, truth and error in Sri Lanka; Changing certainties and the move to a 'global' religion: medical knowledge and Islamization among Anii (Baseda) in the Republic of Benin; Bourdieu and the diviner: knowledge and symbolic power in Yoruba divination; Choking on the Quran: and other consuming parables from the western Indian Ocean front
Description / Table of Contents:
Cultural certainties and private doubtsName index; Subject index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Based on papers from the 4th Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth held in Oxford in 1993
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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