Trevor H. J. Marchand 
Making Knowledge [EPUB ebook] 
Explorations of the Indissoluble Relation between Mind, Body and Environment

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Making Knowledge presents the work of leading
anthropologists who promote pioneering approaches to understanding
the nature and social constitution of human knowledge. The book
offers a progressive interdisciplinary approach to the subject and
covers a rich and diverse ethnography.
* Presents cutting-edge research and theory in
anthropology
* Includes many beautiful illustrations throughout
* The contributions cover a rich and diverse ethnography
* Offers a progressive interdisciplinary approach to the eternal
questions concerning ‘human knowledge’
* Contributions by leading scholars in the field who explore a
wide range of disciplines through an anthropological
perspective

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Notes on contributors.
Preface.
Trevor H.J. Marchand: Introduction: Making knowledge:
explorations of the indissoluble relation between mind, body, and
environment.
1 Greg Downey: ‘Practice without theory’: a
neuroanthropological perspective on embodied learning.
2 Tom Rice: Learning to listen: auscultation and the
transmission of auditory knowledge.
3 Anna Odland Portisch: The craft of skilful learning: Kazakh
women’s everyday craft practices in western Mongolia.
4 Nicolette Makovicky: ‘Something to talk about’:
notation and knowledge-making among Central Slovak
lace-makers.
5 Trevor H.J. Marchand: Embodied cognition and communication:
studies with British fine woodworkers.
6 Tim Ingold: Footprints through the weather-world: walking,
breathing, knowing.
7 Konstantinos Retsikas: Unconscious culture and conscious
nature: exploring East Javanese conceptions of the person through
Bourdieu’s lens.
8 Soumhya Venkatesan: Learning to weave; weaving to learn …
what?
9 Roy Dilley: Reflections on knowledge practices and the
problem of ignorance.
10 Emma Cohen: Anthropology of knowledge.
Index.

Circa l’autore

Trevor H. J. Marchand is Professor of Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. As a trained architect and qualified furniture maker, he has conducted fieldwork with craftspeople in Arabia, West Africa and the United Kingdom. His research focuses on apprenticeship, cognition and communication. Marchand is the author of Minaret Building & Apprenticeship in Yemen (2001) and The Masons of Djenné (2009), and co-producer of the documentary film Future of Mud (2007).

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 216 ● ISBN 9781444391480 ● Dimensione 3.0 MB ● Editore Trevor H. J. Marchand ● Casa editrice John Wiley & Sons ● Pubblicato 2011 ● Edizione 1 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 2390175 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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