Regimes of Ignorance: Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Roy Dilley (editor); Thomas G. Kirsch (editor)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology; 29
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Regimes of Ignorance: An Introduction
Chapter 1 Mind the Gap: On the Other Side of Knowing
Chapter 2 Ignoring Native Ignorance: Epidemiological Enclosures of Not-Knowing Plague in Inner Asia
Chapter 3 Managing Pleasurable Pursuits: Utopic Horizons and the Art s of Ignoring and ‘Not Knowing’ among Fine Woodworkers
Chapter 4 Ignorant Bodies and the Dangers of Knowledge in Amazonia
Chapter 5 What Do Child Sex Offenders Not Know?
Chapter 6 Problematic Reproductions: Children, Slavery and Not-Knowing in Colonial French West Africa
Chapter 7 Power and Ignorance in British India: The Native Fetish of the Crown
Chapter 8 Secrecy and the Epistemophilic Other
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