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.
Christina Toren is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the
Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of St Andrews,
Scotland. She is trained in both psychology and anthropology, does
her fieldwork in Fiji, and has published widely on many aspects of
contemporary Fijian life, including ethnographic studies of
ontogeny.
Joao de Pina-Cabral is Professor of Anthropology and Research
Coordinator at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University
of Lisbon where he was Scientific Director (1997- 2003). He was
Founding President and of the Portuguese Association of
Anthropology (1989- 91), President of the European Association of
Social Anthropologists (2003-05). He has carried out fieldwork and
published extensively on the Alto Minho (Portugal), Macau (China),
and Bahia (Brazil).
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