Shifting Contexts

An examination of the contexts in which people make different orders of knowledge as a prelude to questioning assumptions about the size of knowledge implied in the contrast between global and local perspectives.

Auteur

Strathern, Marilyn

Résumé
To suppose anthropological analysis can shift between global and local perspectives may well imply that the two co-exist as broader and narrower horizons or contexts of knowledge. The proof for this can be found in ethnographic accounts where contrasts are repeatedly drawn between the encompassing realm and everyday life or in value systems which sumultaneously trivialise and aggrandise or in shifts between what pertains to the general or to the particular.

Contenu

Introduction Foreword; Chapter 1 Forgotten knowledge, Mary Douglas; Chapter 2 Exhibiting knowledge, Mary Bouquet; Chapter 3 Building, dwelling, living, Tim Ingold; Chapter 4 Transformations of identity in Sepik warfare, Simon Harrison; Chapter 5 Human rights and moral knowledge, Richard Werbner; Chapter 6 Globalisation and the new technologies of knowing, Angela P. Cheater; Chapter 7 Cultures in collision, Stephen Hill, Tim Turpin; Chapter 8 The nice thing about culture is that everyone has it, Marilyn Strathern; Chapter 9 Afterword;