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Ways of knowing : anthropological approaches to crafting experience and knowledge / edited by Mark Harris

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Author:
Harris, Mark 1969-  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2007
Notes:
Conference papers held in 2005.
Contents:
Of dialectical Germans and dialectical ethnographers : notes from an engagement with philosophy / Dominic Boyer -- Practising an anthropology of philosophy : general reflections and the Swahili context / Kai Kresse -- Is religion a way of knowing? / Otávio Velho -- Deskilling : 'dumbing down and the auditing of knowledge in the practical mastery of artisans and academics : an ethnographer's response to a global problem / Michael Herzfeld -- Knowing silence and merging horizons : the case of the great Potosí cover-up / Tristan Platt with Pablo Quisbert -- The construction of ethnographic knowledge in a colonial context : the case of Henri Gaden (1867-1939) / Roy Dilley -- Embodying knowledge : finding a path in the village of the sick / Paul Stoller -- Crafting knowledge : the role of 'parsing and production' in the communication of skill-based knowledge among masons / Trevor Marchand -- Communities of practice and forms of life : towards a rehabilitation of vision? / Cristina Grasseni -- Seeing with a 'sideways glance' : visuomotor 'knowing' and the plasticity of perception / Greg Downey -- Figures twice seen : Riles, the modern knower and forms of knowledge / Tony Crook -- 'A weight of meaninglessness about which there is nothing insignificant' : abjection and knowing in an art school and on a housing estate / Amanda Ravetz -- The 4 A's (anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture) : reflections on a teaching and learning experience / Tim Ingold with Ray Lucas -- A discussion concerning ways of knowing / Nigel Rappoport and Mark Harris
Topic:
Anthropology  Search this
Learning  Search this
Experience  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_903246