Regimes of Ignorance

Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge

Roy Dilley, Thomas G. Kirsch (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2015
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-838-8 (ISBN)

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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. This volume's ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy.

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.

Roy Dilley is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. His books include Islamic and Caste Knowledge Practices among Haalpulaaren (2004), Nearly Native, Barely Civilized: Henri Gaden's Journey Across Colonial French West Africa (2014) and Rencontres photographiques: Henri Gaden, photographe, en Afrique Occidentale, with the Archives nationales d'outre-mer, Aix-en-Provence.

Introduction: Regimes of Ignorance: An Introduction

Thomas G. Kirsch and Roy Dilley

Chapter 1. Mind the Gap: On the Other Side of Knowing

Carlo Caduff

Chapter 2. Ignoring Native Ignorance: Epidemiological Enclosures of Not-Knowing Plague in Inner Asia

Christos Lynteris

Chapter 3. Managing Pleasurable Pursuits: Utopic Horizons and the Arts of Ignoring and ‘Not Knowing’ among Fine Woodworkers

Trevor H. J. Marchand

Chapter 4. Ignorant Bodies and the Dangers of Knowledge in Amazonia

Casey High

Chapter 5. What Do Child Sex Offenders Know?

John Borneman

Chapter 6. Problematic Reproductions: Children, Slavery and Not-Knowing in Colonial French West Africa

Roy Dilley

Chapter 7. Power and Ignorance in British India: The Native Fetish of the Crown

Leo Coleman

Chapter 8. Secrecy and the Epistemophilic Other

Thomas G. Kirsch

Notes on Contributors

Reihe/Serie	Methodology & History in Anthropology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-78238-838-9 / 1782388389
ISBN-13	978-1-78238-838-8 / 9781782388388
Zustand	Neuware