How do we know? Evidence, Ethnography, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge Evidence, Ethnography, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Cambridge Scholars Pub.
2008
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Table of contents; acknowledgements; introduction; old and new reflections; "we sing about what we cannot talk about"; audio-visual evidence and anthropological knowledge; end of the spear; pragmatic evidence and the politics of everyday practice; the vodou priest who lost his spirit; enmities and introspection; understanding tibetan shame and hierarchy through emotional experience in fieldwork; virtual returns; afterword; contributors; index
- Since its inception, modern anthropology has stood at the confluence of two mutually constitutive modes of knowledge production: participant-observation and theoretical analysis. This unique combination of practice and theory has been the subject of recurrent intellectual and methodological debate, raising questions that strike at the very heart of the discipline. How Do We Know? is a timely contribution to emerging debates that seek to understand this relationship through the theme of eviden ..