The Challenge of Epistemology by Christina Toren

The Challenge of Epistemology by Christina Toren

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.

“While the editors emphasize that their contributors are not always in agreement, there is a notable coherence to this volume, reflecting the evidently thorough preparation… This reviewer found much food for thought here, especially in Gow’s fascinating multi-dimensional autoethnography, prompted by a question arising from an indigenous epistemologySuch critical ethnography of the ontoepistemological foundations of our multiple personal pasts offers, at the same time, a window on the human condition.”  ·  Social Analysis

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 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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ISBN 13	9780857454355
ISBN 10	0857454358
Title	The Challenge of Epistemology
Author	Christina Toren
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Berghahn Books
Year published	2011-10-01
Number of pages	228
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