Chapter 10 Evidence in Socio-cultural Anthropology: Limits and Options for Epistemological Orientations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: The Challenge of Epistemology 1
4. Chapter 1 Answering Daimã’s Question: The Ontogeny of an Anthropological Epistemology in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 19
5. Chapter 2 Phenomenological Psychoanalysis: The Epistemology of Ethnographic Field Research 40
6. Chapter 3 Plural Modernity: Changing Modern Institutional Forms—Disciplines and Nation-States 60
7. Chapter 4 Ontography and Alterity: Defining Anthropological Truth 80
8. Chapter 5 Exchanging Skin: Making a Science of the Relation between Bolivip and Barth 94
9. Chapter 6 An Afro-Brazilian Theory of the Creative Process: An Essay in Anthropological Symmetrization 108
10. Chapter 7 Intersubjectivity as Epistemology 130
11. Chapter 8 Can Anthropology Make Valid Generalizations? Feelings of Belonging in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest 147
12. Chapter 9 The All-or-Nothing Syndrome an d the Human Condition 163
13. Chapter 10 Evidence in Socio-cultural Anthropology: Limits and Options for Epistemological Orientations 177
14. Chapter 11 Strange Tales from the Road: A Lesson Learned in an Epistemology for Anthropology 191
15. Chapter 12 Epistemology and Ethics: Perspectives from Africa 207
16. Index 219