Ways of Knowing

Ways of KnowingThat there are multiple ways of knowing the world has become a truism. What meaning is left in the sheer familiarity of the phrase? The essays here consider how humans come to know themselves and their worlds. Should anthropologists should seek complexity or simplicity in their analyses of other societies? By going beyond the notion that a way of knowing is a perspective on the world, this book explores paths to understanding, as people travel along

relating it to contemporary theories of the good life

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substantive analysis of the global politics and diplomacy of intellectual property protection and antitrust

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this new edition of Between the Spreadsheets draws on classification expert Susan Walsh’s years of hands-on experience in data to present a fool-proof method for cleaning and classifying your data

Many different languages are analyzed: Sino-Tibetan Manipuri

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The German abandonment of nuclear power represents one of the most successful popular revolts against technocratic thinking in modern times—the triumph of a dynamic social movement

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