Regimes of Ignorance : : Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge /

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

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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 ignora...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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