Objects Evidence

Herausgeber: Engelke, Matthew

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Evidence is something that all anthropologists must possess, and the collection of evidence in the field is still one of the main ingredients of what Bronislaw Malinowski once referred to as 'the ethnographer's magic'. And yet, despite this, the concept of evidence has received little sustained attention in print - especially when compared to related concepts, such as 'fieldwork', 'truth', 'facts', and 'knowledge'. All anthropologists use evidence, but precious few reflect on what it is - or isn't. This volume goes some way to correcting this state of affairs. The volume's contributors share the conviction that anthropology can no longer afford to ignore the importance of the concept of evidence, either for the ways in which anthropologists carry out their work (methodology) or present and justify their findings (epistemology). But the real strength of the volume comes from the ways in which the contributors argue the case from a variety of theoretical perspectives. This volume is a first when it comes to the care with which it treats such an important subject, and a rarity in its ability to orchestrate so many different paradigms and points of view.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9781405192965
• ISBN-10: 1405192968
• Artikelnr.: 25944820

Autorenporträt

Matthew Engelke is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on editor and contributors vii
Foreword ix
Preface xi
1 Matthew Engelke The objects of evidence 1
2 Maurice Bloch Truth and sight: generalizing without universalizing 21
3 Christopher Pinney The prosthetic eye: photography as cure and poison 31
4 Anthony Good Cultural evidence in courts of law 44
5 Sharad Chari The antinomies of political evidence in post-Apartheid
Durban, South Africa 58
6 Stefan Ecks Three propositions for an evidence-based medical anthropology
74
7 Martin Holbraad Definitive evidence, from Cuban gods 89
8 Webb Keane The evidence of the senses and the materiality of religion 105
9 Charles Stafford Linguistic and cultural variables in the psychology of
numeracy 122
10 Nicola Knight & Rita Astuti Some problems with property ascription 135
Index 151

Rezensionen

"This volume is successful is in transforming the problem ofevidence into a productive inquiry." (Journal of the RoyalAnthropological Institute, January 2011)

'A satisfyingly complex and lucid collection, these essaysare ordered to create a ripple effect of themes and arguments thatemerge as related, overlapping and contingent to one another - anice reflection on the substance of the authors' concerns withevidence. Compulsive, not just imperative, reading for anyoneengaged with the analysis of field materials.'
Marilyn Strathern, Girton College, University ofCambridge

'Objects of Evidence provides signal advances to thinkingabout two topics of fundamental importance, namely the anthropologyof epistemology - how people make claims to knowledge - and theepistemology of anthropology - the claims on which anthropologicalknowledge rests.'
Michael Lambek, University of Toronto