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Author Chua, Liana.

Title How do we know? Evidence, Ethnography, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge : Evidence, Ethnography, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.
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Description 1 online resource (233 pages)
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Contents Table of contents; acknowledgements; introduction; old and new reflections; "we sing about what we cannot talk about"; audio-visual evidence and anthropological knowledge; end of the spear; pragmatic evidence and the politics of everyday practice; the vodou priest who lost his spirit; enmities and introspection; understanding tibetan shame and hierarchy through emotional experience in fieldwork; virtual returns; afterword; contributors; index.
Summary Since its inception, modern anthropology has stood at the confluence of two mutually constitutive modes of knowledge production: participant-observation and theoretical analysis. This unique combination of practice and theory has been the subject of recurrent intellectual and methodological debate, raising questions that strike at the very heart of the discipline. How Do We Know? is a timely contribution to emerging debates that seek to understand this relationship through the theme of eviden ...
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Subject Anthropology -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
Anthropology -- Philosophy.
Ethnology -- Congresses.
Ethnology -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author High, Casey, 1977-
Lau, Timm.
Other Form: Print version: Chua, Liana. How do we know? Evidence, Ethnography, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge : Evidence, Ethnography, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2008 9781847185815
ISBN 9781443810296 (electronic book)
1443810290 (electronic book)

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