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dc.contributor.author | Chua, L | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-04-07T10:15:52Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-04-07T10:15:52Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 15(2), 332 - 348, 2009 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1359-0987 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01556.x/abstract | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8254 | - |
dc.description | © Royal Anthropological Institute 2009. This is the accepted version of the following article: Chua, L. (2009), To know or not to know? Practices of knowledge and ignorance among Bidayuhs in an ‘impurely’ Christian world. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 15: 332–348, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01556.x/abstract. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This article seeks to render ignorance analytically and ethnographically productive by exploring practices and tropes of knowing and not-knowing among young Christian Bidayuhs in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. It argues that these Bidayuhs' professed ignorance of the old ‘religion’, adat gawai, cannot be dismissed as a simple lack of knowledge or reflection of sheer indifference. Instead, their invocations of ignorance could be understood as a productive, empowering device for dealing with the dangers of living in a world in which religious conversion remains an ongoing, incomplete process. Through this ethnographic analysis, the article also offers a reflexive critique of the knowledge-centred impulses that often shape anthropology's epistemological and methodological projects. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Royal Anthropological Institute | en_US |
dc.subject | Epistemology | en_US |
dc.subject | Anthropology | en_US |
dc.subject | Sarawak, Malaysia | en_US |
dc.subject | Christianity | en_US |
dc.title | To know or not to know? Practices of knowledge and ignorance among Bidayuhs in an “impurely” Christian world | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2009.01556.x | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Active Staff | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Active Staff/School of Social Sciences | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Active Staff/School of Social Sciences/Anthropology | - |
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