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Anthropology lies at the heart of the human sciences, tackling
questions having to do with the foundations, ethics, and deployment
of the knowledge crucial to human lives. The Ethics of Knowledge
Creation focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how
local knowledge can be transmuted into 'universal knowledge', and
how the transaction and consumption of knowledge also monitors its
subsequent production. This volume examines the ethical
implications of various kinds of relations that are created in the
process of 'transacting knowledge' and investigates how these
transactions are also situated according to broader contradictions
or synergies between ethical, epistemological, and political
concerns.
Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the human
condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrant's movements not
only as geographical movements from here to there but also as
movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential
experience of living "in between" or on the "borderlands" between
differently figured life-worlds. Focusing on memories, nostalgia,
the here-and-now social experiences of daily living, and the hopes
and dreams for the future, the volume demonstrates how all interact
in migrants' and refugees' experience of identity and quest for
well-being.
Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the human
condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrant's movements not
only as geographical movements from here to there but also as
movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential
experience of living "in between" or on the "borderlands" between
differently figured life-worlds. Focusing on memories, nostalgia,
the here-and-now social experiences of daily living, and the hopes
and dreams for the future, the volume demonstrates how all interact
in migrants' and refugees' experience of identity and quest for
well-being.
Focusing on issues of empathy and mutuality, and self and other, as
experienced in the everyday challenges of doing
participant-observation fieldwork, this volume makes a significant
contribution to rethinking the experiential and conceptual
construction of the field. The contributors adopt a critical and
self reflexive approach that goes beyond issues of voice and
representation raised by early postmodern anthropology, to grapple
with issues concerning the nature of knowledge transmission that
lie at the very heart of the ethnographic effort. They explore how
multiple modes of attending, awareness and sense making can shape
the ethnographic process. Of note are those unanticipated, less
palpable forms of communication that are peripheral to or transcend
more formalized and structured research methods and agendas. Among
these are empathy, intuition, somatic modes of attention and/or
embodied knowledge and identification, as well as, shared sensory
experiences and aesthetics. By the elaboration of such concepts the
volume as a whole offers a substantial elaboration of a
phenomenological approach.
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