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1 online resource (xii, 316 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Uses of knowledge.
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Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conference (4th : 1993 : Oxford, England).
Uses of knowledge.
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| Note |
Based on papers from the 4th Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth held in Oxford in 1993. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction: whatever happened to the Enlightenment? / Wendy James -- Managing tradition: 'superstition' and the making of national identity among Sudanese women refugees / Janice Boddy -- History and the discourse of underdevelopment among the Alur of Uganda / Aidan Southall -- Race, culture and- what?: pluralist certainties in the United States / Paul Dresch -- Certain knowledge: the encounter of global fundamentalism and local Christianity in urban south India / Lionel Caplan -- Inventing certainties: the dakwah persona in Malaysia / Shamsul A.B. -- Powerful knowledge in a global Sufi cult: reflections on the poetics of travelling theories / Pnina Werbner -- Topophilia, Zionism and 'certainty': making a place out of the space that became Israel again / Robert Paine -- The politics of tolerance: Buddhists and Christians, truth and error in Sri Lanka / Jonathan Spencer -- Changing certainties and the move to a 'global' religion: medical knowledge and Islamization among Anii (Baseda) in the Republic of Bénin / Georg Elwert -- Bourdieu and the diviner: knowledge and symbolic power in Yoruba divination / F. Niyi Akinnaso -- Choking on the Quran: and other consuming parables from the western Indian Ocean front / Michael Lambek -- Cultural certainties and private doubts / Roger Just. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophical anthropology.
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Philosophical anthropology. |
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Cultural pluralism.
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Cultural pluralism. |
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Religion -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Religion. |
| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Subject |
Toleration -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Toleration. |
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Social groups |
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Religious groups |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
James, Wendy.
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Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conference (4th : 1993 : Oxford, England)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pursuit of certainty. London ; New York : Routledge, 1995 (DLC) 94045143 |
| ISBN |
0203450841 (electronic book) |
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9780203450840 (electronic book) |
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9780415107907 (hardback) |
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0415107903 (hardback) |
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9780415107914 (paperback) |
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0415107911 (paperback) |
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0415107903 (Cloth) |
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0415107911 (Paper) |
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