The Anthropology of Ignorance

1. Introduction: Making Ignorance an Ethnographic Object
Jonathan Mair, Ann H. Kelly, Casey High

2. Sarax and the City: Almsgiving and Anonymous Objects in Dakar, Senegal
Gretchen Pfeil

3. Discourses of the Coming: Ignorance, Forgetting, and Prolepsis in Japanese Life-Historiography
Shunsuke Nozawa

4. Evoking Ignorance: Abstraction and Anonymity in Social Networking’s Ideals of Reciprocity
David S. Leitner

5. Between Knowing and Being: Ignorance in Anthropology and Amazonian Shamanism
Casey High

6. “I Don’t Know Why He Did It. It Happened by Itself”: Causality and Suicide in Northwest Greenland
Janne Flora

7. Inhabiting the Temporary: Patience and Uncertainty among Urban Squatters in Buenos Aires
Valeria Procupez

8. “Fertility. Freedom. Finally.”: Cultivating Hope in the Face of Uncertain Futures among Egg-Freezing Women
Tiffany Romain

Keywords: Social Sciences, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, general, Regional and Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Personality and Social Psychology