Ways of Knowing

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CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: ‘Ways of Knowing'
Mark Harris
PART I: PARADIGMS AND POLEMICS
Chapter 1. Of Dialectical Germans and Dialectical Ethnographers: Notes from an Engagement with Philosophy
Dominic Boyer
Chapter 2. Practising an Anthropology of Philosophy: General Reflections and the Swahili Context
Kai Kresse
Chapter 3. Is Religion a Way of Knowing?
Otávio Velho
Chapter 4. Deskilling, ‘Dumbing Down’ and the Auditing of Knowledge in the Practical Mastery of Artisans and Academics: An Ethnographer’s Response to a Global Problem
Michael Herzfeld
PART II: TIME AND THE DISRUPTION OF KNOWING
Chapter 5. Knowing Silence and Merging Horizons: The Case of the Great Potosí Cover-Up
Tristan Platt with Pablo Quisbert
Chapter 6. The Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge in a Colonial Context: The Case of Henri Gaden (1867–1939)
Roy Dilley
Chapter 7. Embodying Knowledge: Finding a Path in the Village of the Sick
Paul Stoller
PART III: RETHINKING EMBODIMENT
Chapter 8. Crafting Knowledge: The Role of ‘Parsing and Production’ in the Communication of Skill-Based Knowledge among Masons
Trevor Marchand
Chapter 9. Communities of Practice and Forms of Life: Towards a Rehabilitation of Vision?
Cristina Grasseni
Chapter 10. Seeing with a ‘Sideways Glance’: Visuomotor ‘Knowing’ and the Plasticity of Perception
Greg Downey
PART IV: LEARNING AND REPOSITIONINGS
Chapter 11. Figures Twice Seen: Riles, the Modern Knower and Forms of Knowledge
Tony Crook
Chapter 12. ‘A Weight of Meaninglessness about which there Is Nothing Insignificant’: Abjection and Knowing in an Art School and on a Housing Estate
Amanda Ravetz
Chapter 13. The 4 A’s (Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture): Reflections on a Teaching and Learning Experience
Tim Ingold with Ray Lucas
Chapter 14. A Discussion Concerning Ways of Knowing
Nigel Rapport and Mark Harris
Notes on Contributors
Index