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Regimes of Ignorance
Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge
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Artikel-Nr:
9781785337468
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.10.2017
Seiten:
224
Autor:
Roy Dilley
Gewicht:
335 g
Format:
229x152x12 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Thomas G. Kirsch is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Konstanz. Recent publications include Spirits and Letters: Reading, Writing and Charisma in African Christianity (Berghahn Books, 2008), Domesticating Vigilantism in Africa (co-edited with Tilo Grätz; James Currey, 2010) and Ethical Fields in Africa (co-edited with Astrid Bochow and Rijk van Dijk, 2017).
Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. Knowledge does not colonize the space of ignorance in the progressive march of science; rather, knowledge and ignorance are mutually shaped in social and political domains of partial, shifting, and temporal relationships. This volume's ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy, as well as the wider implications these ideas have for anthropology and related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.
Introduction: Regimes of Ignorance: An IntroductionThomas G. Kirsch and Roy Dilley