Regimes of Ignorance : : Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge / / ed. by Roy Dilley, Thomas G. Kirsch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Borneman, John,; Caduff, Carlo,; Coleman, Leo,; Dilley, Roy,; High, Casey,; Kirsch, Thomas G.,; Lynteris, Christos,; Marchand, Trevor H.J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Dilley, Roy,; Kirsch, Thomas G.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Regimes of Ignorance: An Introduction --; Chapter 1 Mind the Gap: On the Other Side of Knowing --; Chapter 2 Ignoring Native Ignorance: Epidemiological Enclosures of Not-Knowing Plague in Inner Asia --; Chapter 3 Managing Pleasurable Pursuits: Utopic Horizons and the Art s of Ignoring and ‘Not Knowing’ among Fine Woodworkers --; Chapter 4 Ignorant Bodies and the Dangers of Knowledge in Amazonia --; Chapter 5 What Do Child Sex Offenders Not Know? --; Chapter 6 Problematic Reproductions: Children, Slavery and Not-Knowing in Colonial French West Africa --; Chapter 7 Power and Ignorance in British India: The Native Fetish of the Crown --; Chapter 8 Secrecy and the Epistemophilic Other --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782388395; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782388395
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Roy Dilley, Thomas G. Kirsch.

Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. Knowledge does not colonize the space of ignorance in the progressive march of science; rather, knowledge and ignorance are mutually shaped in social and political domains of partial, shifting, and temporal relationships. This volume’s ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy, as well as the wider implications these ideas have for anthropology and related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.