چالش معرفت‌شناسی: دیدگاه‌های انسان‌شناختی

Epistemology poses particular problems for anthropologists whose task it is to understand manifold ways of being human. Through their work, anthropologists often encounter people whose ideas concerning the nature and foundations of knowledge are at odds with their own. Going right to the heart of anthropological theory and method, this volume discusses issues that have vexed practicing anthropologists for a long time. The authors are by no means in agreement with one another as to where the answers might lie. Some are primarily concerned with the clarity and theoretical utility of analytical categories across disciplines; others are more inclined to push ethnographic analysis to its limits in an effort to demonstrate what kind of sense it can make. All are aware of the much-wanted differences that good ethnography can make in explaining the human sciences and philosophy. The contributors show a continued commitment to ethnography as a profoundly radical intellectual endeavor that goes to the very roots of inquiry into what it is to be human, and, to anthropology as a comparative project that should be central to any attempt to understand who we are. Contents Introduction: The Challenge of Epistemology Chapter 1 Answering Daimã’s Question: The Ontogeny of an Anthropological Epistemology in Eighteenth-Century Scotland Chapter 2 Phenomenological Psychoanalysis: The Epistemology of Ethnographic Field Research Chapter 3 Plural Modernity: Changing Modern Institutional Forms—Disciplines and Nation-States Chapter 4 Ontography and Alterity: Defining Anthropological Truth Chapter 5 Exchanging Skin: Making a Science of the Relation between Bolivip and Barth Chapter 6 An Afro-Brazilian Theory of the Creative Process: An Essay in Anthropological Symmetrization Chapter 7 Intersubjectivity as Epistemology Chapter 8 Can Anthropology Make Valid Generalizations? Feelings of Belonging in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Chapter 9 The All-or-Nothing Syndrome an d the Human Condition Chapter 10 Evidence in Socio-cultural Anthropology: Limits and Options for Epistemological Orientations Chapter 11 Strange Tales from the Road: A Lesson Learned in an Epistemology for Anthropology Chapter 12 Epistemology and Ethics: Perspectives from Africa Index