Argued from a variety of theoretical perspectives and a rarity in its ability to orchestrate some many different and vibrant paradigms an
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"This volume is successful is in transforming the problem of evidence into a productive inquiry." (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, January 2011)
Table of Contents
Notes on editor and contributors vii
Foreword ix
Preface xi
1 Matthew Engelke The objects of evidence 1
2 Maurice Bloch Truth and sight: generalizing without universalizing 21
3 Christopher Pinney The prosthetic eye: photography as cure and poison 31
4 Anthony Good Cultural evidence in courts of law 44
5 Sharad Chari The antinomies of political evidence in post-Apartheid Durban, South Africa 58
6 Stefan Ecks Three propositions for an evidence-based medical anthropology 74
7 Martin Holbraad Definitive evidence, from Cuban gods 89
8 Webb Keane The evidence of the senses and the materiality of religion 105
9 Charles Stafford Linguistic and cultural variables in the psychology of numeracy 122
10 Nicola Knight & Rita Astuti Some problems with property ascription 135
Index 151
