The Challenge of Epistemology : : Anthropological Perspectives /

The Challenge of Epistemology : : Anthropological Perspectives / / ed. by Christina Toren, João de Pina-Cabral.

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Epistemology poses particular problems for anthropologists whose task it is to understand manifold ways of being human. Through their work, anthropologists often encounter people whose ideas concerning the nature and foundations of knowledge are at odds with their own. Going right to the heart of an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Crook, Tony,
Gingrich, Andre,
Goldman, Marcio,
Gow, Peter,
Holbraad, Martin,
Mimica, Jadran,
Moore, Henrietta L.,
Ota, Yoshinobu,
Pina-Cabral, João de,
Silva, Filipe Carreira da,
Toren, Christina,
Viegas, Susana de Matos,
Vieira, Mónica Brito,
HerausgeberIn:
Pina-Cabral, João de,
Toren, Christina,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Challenge of Epistemology
  • Chapter 1 Answering Daimã’s Question: The Ontogeny of an Anthropological Epistemology in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
  • Chapter 2 Phenomenological Psychoanalysis: The Epistemology of Ethnographic Field Research
  • Chapter 3 Plural Modernity: Changing Modern Institutional Forms—Disciplines and Nation-States
  • Chapter 4 Ontography and Alterity: Defining Anthropological Truth
  • Chapter 5 Exchanging Skin: Making a Science of the Relation between Bolivip and Barth
  • Chapter 6 An Afro-Brazilian Theory of the Creative Process: An Essay in Anthropological Symmetrization
  • Chapter 7 Intersubjectivity as Epistemology
  • Chapter 8 Can Anthropology Make Valid Generalizations? Feelings of Belonging in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
  • Chapter 9 The All-or-Nothing Syndrome an d the Human Condition
  • Chapter 10 Evidence in Socio-cultural Anthropology: Limits and Options for Epistemological Orientations
  • Chapter 11 Strange Tales from the Road: A Lesson Learned in an Epistemology for Anthropology
  • Chapter 12 Epistemology and Ethics: Perspectives from Africa
  • Index

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