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Chapter 11 FIGURES TWICE SEEN: RILES, THE MODERN KNOWER AND FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE

© 2007, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

© 2007, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. LIST OF FIGURES ix
  4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
  5. Introduction ‘WAYS OF KNOWING’ 1
  6. Chapter 1 OF DIALECTICAL GERMANS AND DIALECTICAL ETHNOGRAPHERS: NOTES FROM AN ENGAGEMENT WITH PHILOSOPHY 27
  7. Chapter 2 PRACTISING AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY: GENERAL REFLECTIONS AND THE SWAHILI CONTEXT 42
  8. Chapter 3 IS RELIGION A WAY OF KNOWING? 64
  9. Chapter 4 DESKILLING, ‘DUMBING DOWN’ AND THE AUDITING OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE PRACTICAL MASTERY OF ARTISANS AND ACADEMICS: AN ETHNOGRAPHER’S RESPONSE TO A GLOBAL PROBLEM 91
  10. PART II TIME AND THE DISRUPTION OF KNOWING
  11. Chapter 5 KNOWING SILENCE AND MERGING HORIZONS: THE CASE OF THE GREAT POTOSÍ COVER-UP 113
  12. Chapter 6 THE CONSTRUCTION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE IN A COLONIAL CONTEXT: THE CASE OF HENRI GADEN (1867–1939) 139
  13. Chapter 7 EMBODYING KNOWLEDGE: FINDING A PATH IN THE VILLAGE OF THE SICK 158
  14. PART III RETHINKING EMBODIMENT
  15. Chapter 8 CRAFTING KNOWLEDGE: THE ROLE OF ‘PARSING AND PRODUCTION’ IN THE COMMUNICATION OF SKILL-BASED KNOWLEDGE AMONG MASONS 181
  16. Chapter 9 COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE AND FORMS OF LIFE: TOWARDS A REHABILITATION OF VISION? 203
  17. Chapter 10 SEEING WITH A ‘SIDEWAYS GLANCE’: VISUOMOTOR ‘KNOWING’ AND THE PLASTICITY OF PERCEPTION 222
  18. PART IV LEARNING AND REPOSITIONINGS
  19. Chapter 11 FIGURES TWICE SEEN: RILES, THE MODERN KNOWER AND FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE 245
  20. Chapter 12 ‘A WEIGHT OF MEANINGLESSNESS ABOUT WHICH THERE IS NOTHING INSIGNIFICANT’: ABJECTION AND KNOWING IN AN ART SCHOOL AND ON A HOUSING ESTATE 266
  21. Chapter 13 THE 4 A’S (ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY, ART AND ARCHITECTURE): REFLECTIONS ON A TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCE 287
  22. Chapter 14 A DISCUSSION CONCERNING WAYS OF KNOWING 306
  23. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 331
  24. INDEX 336
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