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Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge

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Tracing the process from the fieldwork to the analysis of results, this book demonstrates how the ethnographer arrives at an understanding not only of `culture' and `society', but also of the ways in which cultures and societies evolve.

Author(s): Kirsten Hastrup, Peter Hervik
Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1994

Language: English
Pages: 264

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 7
Introduction......Page 10
1 Incomers and Fieldworkers......Page 19
2 Making Sense of New Experience......Page 30
3 Vicarious and Sensory Knowledge of Chronology......Page 43
4 Veiled Experiences......Page 58
5 Shared Reasoning in the Field......Page 68
6 The Mysteries of Incarnation......Page 85
7 On the Relevance of Common Sense For Anthropological Knowledge......Page 100
8 Where the Community Reveals Itself......Page 113
9 Time, Ritual and Social Experience......Page 134
10 Space and The ‘Other’......Page 144
11 Events and Processes......Page 159
12 Anthropological knowledge incorporated......Page 177
Name Index......Page 190
Subject Index......Page 196