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Regimes of Ignorance: Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge

by Roy Dilley

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How ignorance takes shape alongside knowledge

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How ignorance takes shape alongside knowledge

This edited volume approaches non-knowledge not as a simple absence, but as something whose meaning develops in relation to what is known. Its ethnographic analyses examine how ignorance and secrecy are produced and reproduced within social and political settings, where the boundaries between knowledge and non-knowledge can shift over time. The collection uses these relationships to build a theoretical frame for considering their broader significance in anthropology and neighboring fields across the social sciences and humanities. Its central contribution, as described here, is to make non-knowledge an object of inquiry in its own right and to consider how it participates in the organization of knowledge.

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  • Those interested in anthropological approaches to knowledge, ignorance, and secrecy
  • Readers studying epistemology or social and political dimensions of knowledge
  • Students and scholars in anthropology, social sciences, or humanities

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Knowledge and non-knowledgeIgnorance and secrecySocial and political contextsEthnographic analysisAnthropology and epistemology

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Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. Knowledge does not colonize the space of ignorance in the progressive march of science; rather, knowledge and ignorance are mutually shaped in social and political domains of partial, shifting, and temporal relationships. This volume's ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy, as well as the wider implications these ideas have for anthropology and related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.

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