Capturing the Ineffable - An Anthropology of Wisdom (Hardcover)

Grounded in ethnographic case studies that examine experiences from which wisdom emerges, Capturing the Ineffable provides a rigorous analysis of the sociocultural context of wisdom in the contemporary world. Each chapter in the volume deals with different aspects and showcases how communities in different contexts - nursing homes, religious organizations, corporations, and monastic institutions, for example - engage with the ineffability of wisdom. Contributors draw from a range of disciplines and cross-cultural and historical data in order to interpret the meaning and value of wisdom as a human endeavour. This book also represents an anthropological method for evaluating various philosophical and scientific approaches to understanding wisdom, including how wisdom is learned and taught. Readers will be able to appreciate how action, emotion, uncertainty, and cultural systems come to bear on wisdom as a value in human life and expression. In the end, Capturing the Ineffable reveals how the conception and paradoxical nature of wisdom dispels the dichotomies of self/other, structure/agency, known/unknown, nature/culture, and the like. What is at stake is a recasting of wisdom as a particular kind of anthropological endeavour and, thus, a return to and modification of philosophical anthropology.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	May 2020
First published:	2020
Editors:	Philip Y. Kao • Joseph S. Alter
Dimensions:	235 x 160 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-1-4875-0313-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	1-4875-0313-X
Barcode:	9781487503130

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