{"product_id":"the-challenge-of-epistemology-anthropological-perspectives-9780857454355","title":"The Challenge of Epistemology Anthropological","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpistemology 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 anthropological theory and method, this volume discusses issues that have vexed practicing anthropologists for a long time. The authors are by no means in agreement with one another as to where the answers might lie. Some are primarily concerned with the clarity and theoretical utility of analytical categories across disciplines; others are more inclined to push ethnographic analysis to its limits in an effort to demonstrate what kind of sense it can make. All are aware of the much-wanted differences that good ethnography can make in explaining the human sciences and philosophy. The contributors show a continued commitment to ethnography as a profoundly radical intellectual endeavor that go\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eWhile the editors emphasize that their contributors are not always in agreement, there is a notable coherence to this volume, reflecting the evidently thorough preparation… This reviewer found much food for thought here, especially in Gow’s fascinating multi-dimensional autoethnography, prompted by a question arising from an indigenous epistemology. Such critical ethnography of the ontoepistemological foundations of our multiple personal pasts offers, at the same time, a window on the human condition.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  Social Analysis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e What Is Happening to Epistemology?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristina Toren\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJoão de Pina-Cabral\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eAnswering Daimã’s Question: The Ontogeny of an Anthropological Epistemology in Eighteenth-Century Scotland\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePeter Gow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2\u003c\/strong\u003e. Phenomenological Psychoanalysis: The Epistemology of Ethnographic Field Research\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJadran Mimica\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003ePlural Modernity: Changing Modern Institutional Forms—Disciplines and Nation-States\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFilipe Carreira da Silva\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMónica Brito Vieira\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Ontography and Alterity: Defining Anthropological Truth\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMartin Holbraad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Exchanging Skin: Making a Science of the Relation between Bolivip and Barth\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTony Crook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e An Afro-Brazilian Theory of the Creative Process: An Essay in Anthropological Symmetrization\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarcio Goldman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eIntersubjectivity as Epistemology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristina Toren\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eCan Anthropology Make Valid Generalizations? Feelings of Belonging in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSusana de Matos Viegas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e The All-or-Nothing Syndrome and the Human Condition\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJoão de Pina-Cabral\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Evidence in Socio-cultural Anthropology: Limits and Options for Epistemological Orientations\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAndre Gingrich\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Strange Tales from the Road: A Lesson Learned in an Epistemology for Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eYoshinobu Ota\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Epistemology and Ethics: Perspectives from Africa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHenrietta L. 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