Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

Ways of Knowing : New Approaches in the Anthropology of Knowledge and Learning.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (352 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781789204155
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 301.01
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Ways of Knowing -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Paradigms and Polemics -- Chapter 1. Of Dialectical Germans and Dialectical Ethnographers -- Chapter 2. Practising an Anthropology of Philosophy -- Chapter 3. Is Religion a Way of Knowing? -- Chapter 4. Deskilling, 'Dumbing Down' and the Auditing of Knowledge in the Practical Mastery of Artisans and Academics -- Part II. Time and the Disruption of Knowing -- Chapter 5. Knowing Silence and Merging Horizons -- Chapter 6. The Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge in a Colonial Context -- Chapter 7. Embodying Knowledge -- Part III. Rethinking Embodiment -- Chapter 8. Crafting Knowledge -- Chapter 9. Communities of Practice and Forms of Life -- Chapter 10. Seeing with a 'Sideways Glance' -- Part IV. Learning and Repositionings -- Chapter 11. Figures Twice Seen -- Chapter 12. 'A Weight of Meaninglessness about which There is Nothing Insignificant' -- Chapter 13. The 4 A's (Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture) -- Chapter 14. A Discussion Concerning Ways of Knowing -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
No physical items for this record

Intro -- Ways of Knowing -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Paradigms and Polemics -- Chapter 1. Of Dialectical Germans and Dialectical Ethnographers -- Chapter 2. Practising an Anthropology of Philosophy -- Chapter 3. Is Religion a Way of Knowing? -- Chapter 4. Deskilling, 'Dumbing Down' and the Auditing of Knowledge in the Practical Mastery of Artisans and Academics -- Part II. Time and the Disruption of Knowing -- Chapter 5. Knowing Silence and Merging Horizons -- Chapter 6. The Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge in a Colonial Context -- Chapter 7. Embodying Knowledge -- Part III. Rethinking Embodiment -- Chapter 8. Crafting Knowledge -- Chapter 9. Communities of Practice and Forms of Life -- Chapter 10. Seeing with a 'Sideways Glance' -- Part IV. Learning and Repositionings -- Chapter 11. Figures Twice Seen -- Chapter 12. 'A Weight of Meaninglessness about which There is Nothing Insignificant' -- Chapter 13. The 4 A's (Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture) -- Chapter 14. A Discussion Concerning Ways of Knowing -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2025. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Licensed e-book