Epistemania! (On the Very Idea of “Knowledge Production”)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19022467 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cameron Hu (0000-0003-3039-8550, Wesleyan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 128 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 647-651 |
| Publication date | 2026-04-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/aman.70081 |
| OpenAlex | W7157067263 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
This is an essay about the way that moderns—among them, anthropologists—live with the concept of knowledge. I ask if certain familiar critical conventions express the compulsions of epistemania, an enthrallment to knowledge as unseeing as the ignorance it would dispel. In particular, I raise questions about the ubiquitous yet underscrutinized language of “knowledge production.”
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