Tag: Epistemologies

Free Download Felix Anderl, "Epistemologies of Land "
English | ISBN: 1538176440 | 2024 | 198 pages | EPUB, PDF | 874 KB + 1517 KB
Land is at the centre of crucial public debates ranging from climate adaptation to housing and development, to agriculture and indigenous peoples’ rights. These debates frequently become stuck, though, because the meaning of land in different contexts is poorly understood. Bringing together specialists of epistemology and land, this volume is a landmark contribution to understanding land knowledge as a complex factor in these debates.

Free Download Megan Elena Bowen, "Believing Ancient Women: Feminist Epistemologies for Greece and Rome "
English | ISBN: 1399512056 | 2023 | 344 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This volume deploys recent feminist epistemological frameworks to analyze how concepts like knowledge, authority, rationality, objectivity and testimony were constructed in Greece and Rome. The introduction serves as a field guide to feminist epistemological interpretations of classical sources, and the following sixteen chapters treat a variety of genres and time periods, from Greek poetry, tragedy, philosophy, oratory, historiography and material culture to Roman comedy, epic, oratory, letters, law and their reception. By using an intersectional approach to demonstrate how epistemic systems exclude and pathologize the experiences of ancient women and other oppressed groups, these contributions aid in the recovery of non-dominant narratives and reveal issues of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual identity, religion, age, class, familial status and citizenship in the ancient and modern world. The volume contributes to a more inclusive and equitable study of classical antiquity and builds transhistorical connections capable of exposing similar injustices in our own time.

Free Download Luz Gonçalves Brito, "Ecological Epistemologies and Spiritualities in Brazilian Ecovillages "
English | ISBN: 1032458208 | 2023 | 124 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book brings together ethnographic field research on four permacultural ecovillages in Brazil to highlight the importance of spirituality and ecological epistemologies as key analytical tools. It demonstrates that ecological spirituality can, and should, be understood beyond the dichotomy of personal and political, between people and nature, in the field of environmental anthropology.

Free Download Toyin Falola, "Decolonizing African Knowledge: Autoethnography and African Epistemologies"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1316511235 | PDF | pages: 533 | 134.0 mb
Addressing the consequences of European slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African history, knowledge and its institutions, this innovative book applies autoethnography to the understanding of African knowledge systems. Considering the ‘Self’ and Yoruba Being (the individual and the collective) in the context of the African decolonial project, Falola strips away Eurocentric influences and interruptions from African epistemology. Avoiding colonial archival sources, it grounds itself in alternative archives created by memory, spoken words, images and photographs to look at the themes of politics, culture, nation, ethnicity, satire, poetics, magic, myth, metaphor, sculpture, textiles, hair and gender. Vividly illustrated in colour, it uses diverse and novel methods to access an African way of knowing. Exploring the different ways that a society understands and presents itself, this book highlights convergence, enmeshing private and public data to provide a comprehensive understanding of society, public consciousness, and cultural identity.

Free Download Emily Pierini, "Other Worlds, Other Bodies: Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing"
English | ISBN: 1800738463 | 2023 | 310 pages | PDF | 11 MB
When approaching the multiplicity of the spiritual experiences of healing, ethnographers are often presented with ideas of the existence of "other" worlds that may intersect with the so-called "material" or "physical" worlds. This book proposes a sensory ethnography of healing with a focus on ethnographic knowing as embedded in an embodied epistemology of healing. Epistemological embodiment signals that personal scholarly experience of the "unknown"―be it in the form of trance, or as the embodiment of an "other"―shapes the concepts of healing, body, trance, self, and matter by which ethnographers craft out analysis.