The Anthropology of Ignorance

Casey High is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research with the Waorani communities of Amazonian Ecuador focuses on memory, violence, language, and indigenous politics. He is co-editor of the volume How Do We Know? Evidence, ethnography, and the making of anthropological knowledge (2008) and his recent articles have been published in American Ethnologist and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Ann H. Kelly is a lecturer in Anthropology at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the University of London. Her work explores the production of scientific facts in Africa, with special attention to the built-environments, material artifacts, and practical labors of experimentation. Her work has recently been published in Social Science and Medicine, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Biosocieties, and the Journal of Cultural Economy.

Jonathan Mair is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at Manchester University and held a research fellowship at St. John's College, Cambridge while he was working on this book. He has conducted field research in China, Taiwan, and the UK and writes on Buddhism, ethics, belief, and ignorance. His recent work is an ethnographic account of the contemporary revival of Tibetan Buddhism in the Mongolian regions of northern China.