Knowing How to Know

Knowing How to KnowThis volume examines some crucial issues in the conduct of fieldwork and ethnography and provides new insights into the problems of constructing anthropological knowledge. How is anthropological knowledge created from fieldwork, whose knowledge is this, who determines what is of significance in any ethnographic context, and how is the fieldsite extended in both time and place? Nine anthropologists examine these problems, drawing on diverse case

John Rogers

and literary writing to offer a thoughtful meditation on Victorian attitudes toward death and burial

and the royal parents of Chariclea themselves

obscuring concepts

From Socrates to the Middle Ages

While the search for meaning and purpose appears to be a constant throughout human history

including the Eastern block

and working practices in the social periphery

she finds herself emboldened to share aspects of her personal history with Guillaume

Investigates how middle grade teachers' deeper understanding of the mathematics of number

and also presents well-known works of literature in an entirely new light

exposing its reliance on the governance of sexuality