The Ethics of Knowledge Creation: Transactions, Relations, and Persons: 31 (Methodology & History in Anthropology)

ISBN 10: 1785334042 ISBN 13: 9781785334047

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2017

Synopsis

Anthropology lies at the heart of the human sciences, tackling questions having to do with the foundations, ethics, and deployment of the knowledge crucial to human lives. The Ethics of Knowledge Creation focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into 'universal knowledge', and how the transaction and consumption of knowledge also monitors its subsequent production. This volume examines the ethical implications of various kinds of relations that are created in the process of 'transacting knowledge' and investigates how these transactions are also situated according to broader contradictions or synergies between ethical, epistemological, and political concerns.

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About the Author

Lisette Josephides is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast. She previously taught at the Universities of PNG (1984-6), Minnesota (1989-2007), and the London School of Economics (1986-8). The Production of Inequality (1985) and Melanesian Odysseys (2008) are her most important publications on her PNG fieldwork. Her current interests focus on cosmopolitanism, philosophical anthropology and issues of knowledge and the person. Anne Sigfrid Gronseth is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology in the Department of Health and Social Science at the University College of Lillehammer, Norway, where she directs the Research Unit of Health, Culture and Identity. Her research on Tamil refugees with concern for health and wellbeing engages issues of methodology, modes of knowledge and humanism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785334042
• ISBN 13: 9781785334047
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Josephides Lisette, Gronseth Anne Sigfrid