Regimes of ignorance : anthropological perspectives on the production and reproduction of non-knowledge

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Regimes of ignorance : anthropological perspectives on the production and reproduction of non-knowledge

edited by Roy Dilley and Thomas G. Kirsch

(Methodology and history in anthropology, v.29)

Berghahn Books, 2015

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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. 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.

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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

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