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Capturing the Ineffable - An Anthropology of Wisdom (Hardcover)
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Capturing the Ineffable - An Anthropology of Wisdom (Hardcover)
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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.
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