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The objects of evidence : anthropological approaches to the production of knowledge / edited by Matthew Engelke.

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The objects of evidence : anthropological approaches to the production of knowledge / edited by Matthew Engelke.
Publication
Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

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Additional Authors
Engelke, Matthew Eric.
Description
x, 156 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Uniform Title
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Special issue
Alternative Title
Anthropological approaches to the production of knowledge
Subject
  • Anthropology > Research
  • Evidence
  • Anthropologie > Recherche
  • Évidence
  • Anthropology
Note
  • "Originally published as Volume 14, Special Issue April 2008, of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. objects of evidence / Matthew Engelke -- 2. Truth and sight: generalizing without universalizing / Maurice Bloch -- 3. prosthetic eye: photography as cure and poison / Christopher Pinney -- 4. Cultural evidence in courts of law / Anthony Good -- 5. antinomies of political evidence in post-Apartheid Durban, South Africa / Sharad Chari -- 6. Three propositions for an evidence-based medical anthropology / Stefan Ecks -- 7. Definitive evidence, from Cuban gods / Martin Holbraad -- 8. evidence of the senses and the materiality of religion / Webb Keane -- 9. Linguistic and cultural variables in the psychology of numeracy / Charles Stafford -- 10. Some problems with property ascription / Nicola Knight & Rita Astuti.
ISBN
  • 9781405192965 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1405192968 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008052042
OCLC
289008983
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library