Informationen zum Autor Paul Stoller is Professor of Anthropology at West Chester University and Permanent Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Friedrich Alexander University/Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is the author of fifteen books and, in 2013, was awarded the Anders Retzius Gold Medal in Anthropology by the King of Sweden. Klappentext "This book presents a blueprint for doing anthropology in troubled times. It instructs readers on how to convey important anthropological insights-indigenous wisdom-to a general audience in search of solutions to cotemporary social problems."-- Zusammenfassung Wisdom From the Edge describes what anthropologists can do to contribute to the social and cultural changes that shape a social future of wellbeing and viability. Paul Stoller shows how anthropologists can develop sensuously described ethnographic narratives to communicate powerfully their insights to a wide range of audiences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times Part I: The Senses in Artful Ethnography 1. Imaging Knowledge: Artful Vision in Slow Research 2. In the Shade of the Jujube Tree 3. Sensory Dimensions of Spirit Possession 4. Tasting Harmony in the World Part II: The Wisdom of the Elders 5. Peripheral Knowledge and the Imponderables of the Between 6. Th e World According to Rouch 7. Wisdom from the Edge of the Village Coda

Klappentext

"This book presents a blueprint for doing anthropology in troubled times. It instructs readers on how to convey important anthropological insights-indigenous wisdom-to a general audience in search of solutions to cotemporary social problems."--

Zusammenfassung
Wisdom From the Edge describes what anthropologists can do to contribute to the social and cultural changes that shape a social future of wellbeing and viability. Paul Stoller shows how anthropologists can develop sensuously described ethnographic narratives to communicate powerfully their insights to a wide range of audiences.

Inhalt

Introduction: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times
**Part I: The Senses in Artful Ethnography
** 1. Imaging Knowledge: Artful Vision in Slow Research
2. In the Shade of the Jujube Tree
3. Sensory Dimensions of Spirit Possession
4. Tasting Harmony in the World
**Part II: The Wisdom of the Elders
** 5. Peripheral Knowledge and the Imponderables of the Between
6. Th e World According to Rouch
7. Wisdom from the Edge of the Village
Coda