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How Do We Know? Evidence, Ethnography, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge - Couverture rigide

High, Casey

 
9781847185815: How Do We Know? Evidence, Ethnography, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1847185819 ISBN 13 : 9781847185815
Editeur : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

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 evidence. Incorporating a diverse selection of case studies ranging from the Tibetan emotion of shame to films of Caribbean musicians, it critically addresses such questions as: What constitutes viable “anthropological evidence”? How does evidence generated through small-scale, intensive periods of participant-observation challenge or engender abstract theoretical models? Are certain types of evidence inherently “better” than others? How have recent interdisciplinary collaborations and technological innovations altered the shape of anthropological evidence? Extending a long-standing tradition of reflexivity within the discipline, the contributions to this volume are ethnographically-grounded and analytically ambitious meditations on the theme of evidence. Cumulatively, they challenge the boundaries of what anthropologists recognise and construct as evidence, while pointing to its thematic and conceptual potential in future anthropologies.

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À propos de l'auteur

Liana Chua is a Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University. Casey High is a lecturer in anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Timm Lau recently completed his PhD in Social Anthropology at King’s College, Cambridge University.

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Éditeur
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1847185819
ISBN 13 
9781847185815
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
232
Éditeur
Chua Liana, High Casey
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