Mark Harris 
Ways of Knowing [PDF ebook] 
New Approaches in the Anthropology of Knowledge and Learning

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: ‘Ways of Knowing’
Mark Harris

PART I: PARADIGMS AND POLEMICS

Chapter 1. Of Dialectical Germans and Dialectical Ethnographers: Notes from an Engagement with Philosophy
Dominic Boyer

Chapter 2. Practising an Anthropology of Philosophy: General Reflections and the Swahili Context
Kai Kresse

Chapter 3. Is Religion a Way of Knowing?
Otávio Velho

Chapter 4. Deskilling, ‘Dumbing Down’ and the Auditing of Knowledge in the Practical Mastery of Artisans and Academics: An Ethnographer’s Response to a Global Problem
Michael Herzfeld

PART II: TIME AND THE DISRUPTION OF KNOWING

Chapter 5. Knowing Silence and Merging Horizons: The Case of the Great Potosí Cover-Up
Tristan Platt with Pablo Quisbert

Chapter 6. The Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge in a Colonial Context: The Case of Henri Gaden (1867–1939)
Roy Dilley

Chapter 7. Embodying Knowledge: Finding a Path in the Village of the Sick
Paul Stoller

PART III: RETHINKING EMBODIMENT

Chapter 8. Crafting Knowledge: The Role of ‘Parsing and Production’ in the Communication of Skill-Based Knowledge among Masons
Trevor Marchand

Chapter 9. Communities of Practice and Forms of Life: Towards a Rehabilitation of Vision?
Cristina Grasseni

Chapter 10. Seeing with a ‘Sideways Glance’: Visuomotor ‘Knowing’ and the Plasticity of Perception
Greg Downey

PART IV: LEARNING AND REPOSITIONINGS

Chapter 11. Figures Twice Seen: Riles, the Modern Knower and Forms of Knowledge
Tony Crook

Chapter 12. ‘A Weight of Meaninglessness about which there Is Nothing Insignificant’: Abjection and Knowing in an Art School and on a Housing Estate
Amanda Ravetz

Chapter 13. The 4 A’s (Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture): Reflections on a Teaching and Learning Experience
Tim Ingold with Ray Lucas

Chapter 14. A Discussion Concerning Ways of Knowing
Nigel Rapport and Mark Harris

Notes on Contributors
Index

Mark Harris teaches Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. He has conducted fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazon and archival research on a massive rebellion there in the 1830s. His publications include Life on the Amazon (2000), Some other Amazonians (ed. with Stephen Nugent, 2004), The Child in the City (ed. with Anna Grimshaw, 2000).