{"product_id":"the-method-of-hope-9780804757171","title":"The Method of Hope","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Innovative and theoretically provocative.\"—\u003ci\u003eOceania\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What is hope? Can one hope to understand it? \u003ci\u003eMust\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A lucid and compact work, \u003ci\u003eThe Method of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e 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.'\"—\u003ci\u003eAnthropological Forum\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405570711895,"sku":"9780804757171","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804757171.jpg?v=1730492873","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-method-of-hope-9780804757171","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}