1st Edition
Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction, Kirsten Hastrup, Peter Hervik; Chapter 1 Incomers and fieldworkers, Tamara Kohn; Chapter 2 Making sense of new experience, Ingrid Rudie; Chapter 3 Vicarious and sensory knowledge of chronology and change, Judith Okely; Chapter 4 Veiled experiences, Karin Ask; Chapter 5 Shared reasoning in the field, Peter Hervik; Chapter 6 The mysteries of incarnation, Angel Diaz de Rada, Francisco Cruces; Chapter 7 On the relevance of common sense for anthropological knowledge, Marian Kempny, Wojciech J. Burszta; Chapter 8 Where the community reveals itself, Pavlos Kavouras; Chapter 9 Time, ritual and social experience, Andre Gingrich; Chapter 10 Space and the 'other', Thomas Widlok; Chapter 11 Events and processes, John Davis; Chapter 12 Anthropological knowledge incorporated, Kirsten Hastrup;
Biography
Kirsten Hastrup, Peter Hervik
