What's in an argument? Reflections on knowledge exchanges

Bibliographic Data

ID3865705
AuthorsM Strathern (0000-0003-2004-1902, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume55
Issue1
Pages7-29
Publication date2021-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueContributions to Indian Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0069-9659 • E-ISSN: 0069-9667
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0069966720973168
OpenAlexW3135871984
LanguageEN
References cited17

This article draws on a turn of events in the speaker's long association with Papua New Guinea in the Pacific. Pacific Island academics have made it clear that anthropologists should be explicit about 'knowledge exchange'. Knowledge transfers take innumerable forms; in the case of the anthropologist, however, it often seems that expert knowledge is more taken than given. Thinking comparatively about academic practice, is there any future for potential 'exchanges' as forms of interdisciplinarity, say, or of argument between points of view? The article takes the concept of an academic argument to ask about its counterparts in non-academic milieux of knowledge-making in one part of the Pacific

Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Ethnology · New guinea · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Philosophy

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