Ignorance is cosmos, knowledge is chaos: articulating a cosmological polarity in the Solomon Islands. Scott, M. W. Social analysis : the international journal of social and cultural practice, 44(2):56–83, 2000. 1abstract bibtex The article discusses the cosmological polarity in the Solomon Islands. It aims to show that Anglican Arosi's management of knowledge and ignorance shows a transformative reproduction of social polarity. It argues that the key to trace continuity within historical change is antropological attention to ontological premises of cosmology. The author offers a methodological precept of Fredrik Barth, as an alternative to Roger Keesing's presupposition of socio-cultural processes of depletion.
@article{scott_ignorance_2000,
title = {Ignorance is cosmos, knowledge is chaos: articulating a cosmological polarity in the {Solomon} {Islands}},
volume = {44},
issn = {1558-5727},
shorttitle = {Ignorance is cosmos, knowledge is chaos},
abstract = {The article discusses the cosmological polarity in the Solomon Islands. It aims to show that Anglican Arosi's management of knowledge and ignorance shows a transformative reproduction of social polarity. It argues that the key to trace continuity within historical change is antropological attention to ontological premises of cosmology. The author offers a methodological precept of Fredrik Barth, as an alternative to Roger Keesing's presupposition of socio-cultural processes of depletion.},
language = {eng},
number = {2},
journal = {Social analysis : the international journal of social and cultural practice},
author = {Scott, Michael W.},
year = {2000},
note = {1},
keywords = {12 Ignorance in other disciplinary fields, Ignorance in anthropology and ethnology, PRINTED (Fonds papier)},
pages = {56--83},
}