Regimes of Ignorance (eBook)

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).

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