The Method of Hope examines the relationship between hope and knowledge by investigating how hope is produced in various forms of knowledge—Fijian, philosophical, anthropological. The book discusses the hope entailed in a wide range of Fijian knowledge practices such as archival research, gift giving, Christian church rituals, and business practices, and compares it with the concept of hope in the work of philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, and Richard Rorty.The book participates in on-going debates in social theory about how to reclaim the category of hope in progressive thought. The book marks a significant departure from other such efforts by combining a detailed ethnographic analysis of the production of hope in Fijian knowledge practices with an imaginative reading of well-known philosophical texts. The aim is to carve out a space for a new kind of relationship between anthropology and philosophy.
Author(s): Hirokazu Miyazaki
Edition: 1
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 217
Tags: Антропология;Социальная (культурная) антропология;
Front Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Contents......Page 13
Maps and Photographs......Page 14
Map 1. T?he Suva Peninsula......Page 52
Map 2. The Suvavou and Lami area......Page 53
Figure 1. Tui Suva Ratu Epeli Kanakana signing a report......Page 62
Figure 2. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka at a foundation-laying ceremony......Page 135
A Note on Fijian Orthography......Page 15
Half-Title......Page 17
1. Hope as a Method......Page 19
2. A History of Thwarted Hope......Page 49
3. A Politics of Self-Knowledge......Page 68
4. Setting Knowledge in Motion......Page 87
5. Intimating Fulfillment......Page 104
6. Repeating Without Overlapping......Page 126
7. Inheriting Hope......Page 148
Notes......Page 161
References......Page 185
Index......Page 211
