Description
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between hope and knowledge by investigating how hope is produced in various forms of knowledge - Fijian, philosophical, anthropological. This book discusses the hope entailed in a range of Fijian knowledge practices and compares it with the concept of hope in the work of philosophers.
Trade Review"Innovative and theoretically provocative."—
Oceania"What is hope? Can one hope to understand it?
Must one hope in order to understand it? Is hope, then, a method of knowing rather than an object of knowledge? In a brilliant synthesis of philosophy and anthropology, Miyazaki engages the reader with these questions in a path-breaking example of contemporary ethnography."—
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"A lucid and compact work,
The Method of Hope will ideally reorient anthropological knowledge, not only about Fiji but also about the ways in which, as Miyazaki writes, 'hope is a common operative in knowledge formation, academic and otherwise.'"—
Anthropological Forum
