The Method of Hope
Subtitle: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian Knowledge
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: September 7, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780804748865
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; Social & cultural anthropology; Suva; Fijians; Ethnology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Fiji; Land tenure; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Anthropology - General; Ethnophilosophy; Philosophy
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.