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Summary:

"Documents the many relationships and practices that depend on the suspension of knowledge or the generation, deployment, or recognition of ignorance"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Making ignorance an ethnographic object / Jonathan Mair, Ann H. Kelly, and Casey High
• Sarax and the city : almsgiving and anonymous objects in Dakar, Senegal / Gretchen Pfeil
• Discourses of the coming : ignorance, forgetting, and prolepsis in Japanese life-historiography / Shunsuke Nozawa
• Evoking ignorance : abstraction and anonymity in social networking's ideals of reciprocity / David S. Leitner
• Between knowing and being : ignorance in anthropology and Amazonian sahamanism / Casey High
• "I don't know why he did it. It happened by itself" : causality and suicide in northwest Greenland / Janne Flora
• Inhabiting the temporary : patience and uncertainty among urban squatters in Buenos Aires / Valeria Procupez
• "Fertility. Freedom. Finally." : cultivating hope in the face of unceratin futures among egg-freezing women / Tiffany Romain.

Contributors:

High, Casey, 1977-

Kelly, Ann, 1980-

Mair, Jonathan, 1977-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Culture, mind, and society

Subjects:

Ethnology — Philosophy

Ethnopsychology

Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) — Social aspects

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

GN345 .A64 2012eb

ISBNs:

9781137033123 (electronic bk.)
1137033126 (electronic bk.)
9780230340824 [Invalid]
0230340822 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 7223178

OCLC Numbers:

795120227

Other Control Numbers:

EBC931815 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp7667515