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Documents Artifacts of Modern Knowledge

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ISBN-10: 0472069454

ISBN-13: 9780472069453

Edition: 2006

Authors: Annelise Riles, Mario Biagioli, Donald Brenneis, Carol Heimer, Hirokazu Miyazaki

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Description:

Documents reflects on the new challenges to humanistic social science in a world in which the subjects of research increasingly share the professional passions and problems of the researcher. Documents are everywhere in modern life, from the sciences to bureaucracy to law; at the same time, field-workers document social realities by collecting, producing, and exchanging documents of their own. Capping off a generation of reflection and critique about the promises and pitfalls of ethnographic methods, the contributors explore how ethnographers conceive, grasp, appreciate, and see patterns, demonstrating that the core of the ethnographic method now lies in the way ethnographers respond to,…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 10/16/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Annelise Riles is the Jack G. Clarke ’52 Professor of Far Eastern Legal Studies, professor of anthropology, and director of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, all at Cornell University.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: In Response
Academic and Bureaucratic Knowledge
Reforming Promise
[Deadlines]: Removing the Brackets on Politics in Bureaucratic and Anthropological Analysis
Authorship and Agency
Conceiving Children: How Documents Support Case versus Biographical Analyses
Documents of Documents: Scientists' Names and Scientific Claims
Documents Unfolding
Collaboration and Response
Bullet-Proofing: A Tale from the United Kingdom
Documenting the Present
Contributors
Index