Making Knowledge

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

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.