Mark (Hrsg.) Harris

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

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That there are multiple ways of knowing the world has become a truism. What meaning is left in the sheer familiarity of the phrase? The essays here consider how humans come to know themselves and their worlds. Should anthropologists should seek complexity or simplicity in their analyses of other societies? By going beyond the notion that a way of knowing is a perspective on the world, this book explores paths to understanding, as people travel along them, craft their knowledge and shape experience. The topics examined here range from illness to ignorance, teaching undergraduates in Scotland to learning a Brazilian martial arts dance, Hegels c… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84545-364-0
EAN: 9781845453640
Produktnummer: 16226882
Verlag: Berghahn Books Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 354 S.
Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.3 cm 698 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 698

Über den Autor

Mark Harris teaches Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. He has conducted fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazon and archival research on a massive rebellion there in the 1830s. His publications include Life on the Amazon (2000), Some other Amazonians (ed. with Stephen Nugent, 2004), The Child in the City (ed. with Anna Grimshaw, 2000).