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Author:   C. High ,  A. Kelly ,  J. Mair
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780230340824

ISBN 10:   0230340822
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   27 March 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Making Ignorance an Ethnographic Object; J. Mair, A. Kelly & C .High Sarax and the City: Almsgiving and Anonymous Objects in Dakar, Senegal; G. Pfeil Discourses of the Coming: Ignorance, Forgetting, and Prolepsis in Japanese Life-Historiography; S. Nozawa Evoking Ignorance: Abstraction and Anonymity in Social Networking's Ideals of Reciprocity; D. Leitner Between Knowing and Being: Ignorance in Anthropology and Amazonian Shamanism; C. High 'I Don't Know Why He Did It. It Happened by Itself': Causality and Suicide in Northwest Greenland; J. Flora Inhabiting the Temporary: Patience and Uncertainty among Urban Squatters in Buenos Aires; V. Procupez 'Fertility. Freedom. Finally.': Cultivating Hope in the Face of Uncertain Futures among Egg-Freezing Women; T. Romain

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<p> The Anthropology of Ignorance is an ambitious project that addresses the inattention to stances of ignorance or efforts at unknowing which anthropologists may encounter in their ethnographic subjects but which they patch over by making the latter's every gesture and word overly meaningful, or rather too knowing. The book is timely as it is one of the first to decisively take on a persistent element of the world, particularly in its knowledge systems and everyday lives. This is one of only a few books decisively addressing the issue of ignorance in social life and scholarship. - Naveeda Khan, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

"""The Anthropology of Ignorance: An Ethnographic Approach brings an interesting balance of theory , conceptualisation, and case studies, mainly for scholars and not for undergraduates. As a matter of fact, many future essay s and books could be written thanks to the doors this book just opened."" - European Journal of American Studies"

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Janne Flora (Cambridge) P.W.Geissler (LSHTM) Gretchen Pfeil (Chicago) Shunsuke Nozawa (Chicago) David S. Leitner (Cambridge) Valeria Procupez (John Hopkins) Tiffany Romain (Stanford).

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