The Method of Hope: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian KnowledgeStanford University Press, 2004 - 199 The Method of Hope examines the relationship between hope and knowledge by investigating how hope is produced in various forms of knowledge Fijian, philosophical, anthropological. The book discusses the hope entailed in a wide range of Fijian knowledge practices such as archival research, gift giving, Christian church rituals, and business practices, and compares it with the concept of hope in the work of philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, and Richard Rorty. The book participates in on-going debates in social theory about how to reclaim the category of hope in progressive thought. The book marks a significant departure from other such efforts by combining a detailed ethnographic analysis of the production of hope in Fijian knowledge practices with an imaginative reading of well-known philosophical texts. The aim is to carve out a space for a new kind of relationship between anthropology and philosophy. |
Spis treści
A History of Thwarted Hope | 31 |
A Politics of SelfKnowledge | 50 |
Setting Knowledge in Motion | 69 |
Intimating Fulfillment | 86 |
Repeating Without Overlapping | 108 |
Inheriting Hope | 130 |
Notes | 143 |
References | 167 |
193 | |
Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
The Method of Hope: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian Knowledge Hirokazu Miyazaki Widok fragmentu - 2004 |
Kluczowe wyrazy i wyrażenia
Adventist analytical annuity anthropological anthropological knowledge Archives of Fiji Arkady Plotnitsky Bloch Cakaudrove ceremonial chapter chief chiefly title claim colonial coups Culture Delaitoga division documents effort elders emergent Epeli Kanakana Ernst Bloch ethnographic example faith fieldwork Fiji's Fijian Christians Fijian social focus gift-giving rituals gift-receivers gifts government records government's History Hocart ibid indeterminacy Indo-Fijians Kaiwai Kanacea Kanakana Lami Levu Matahau method of hope Nadonumai Holdings National Archives Native Lands Commission NLC records official past philosophy politics Polynesia Company preacher predicated present problem production of hope prospective momentum Qali question Rabuka's apology Ratu Ratu Epeli Ratulevu rent money reorientation replication response retrospective Rewa Roko Tui Suva Rorty SDA Church self-knowledge shares Sitiveni Rabuka speech spokesman strategy Strathern SUVA HARBOR Suva land Suva Peninsula Suvavou people's Suvavou people's hope temporal incongruity three yavusa tion tokatoka Tui Cakau Tui Suva Turaga turn University Press vanua veiqaravi village whole words