Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Kirsten Hastrup, Peter Hervik

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 204
• Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Tracing the process from the fieldwork to the analysis of results, this book demonstrates how the ethnographer arrives at an understanding not only of culture' andsociety', but also of the ways in which cultures and societies evolve.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 7
Introduction......Page 10
1 Incomers and Fieldworkers......Page 19
2 Making Sense of New Experience......Page 30
3 Vicarious and Sensory Knowledge of Chronology......Page 43
4 Veiled Experiences......Page 58
5 Shared Reasoning in the Field......Page 68
6 The Mysteries of Incarnation......Page 85
7 On the Relevance of Common Sense For Anthropological Knowledge......Page 100
8 Where the Community Reveals Itself......Page 113
9 Time, Ritual and Social Experience......Page 134
10 Space and The ‘Other’......Page 144
11 Events and Processes......Page 159
12 Anthropological knowledge incorporated......Page 177
Name Index......Page 190
Subject Index......Page 196