A critique of the anthropology of knowledge: experience and research
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article sets out to analyse a number of research approaches in light of Tim Ingold’s provocations regarding anthropology as both a means of knowledge production and a field of knowledge, in communion and correspondence with life, people and things. Drawing from fourteen years of experience in different knowledge traditions - especially Capoeira Angola - I reflect on how these ways of knowing connect with academic practices and their specific professional methods. Ethnographic premises, I argue, especially those developed through autoethnography, should not be dismissed on the basis of Ingold’s critique of ethnography. Finally, the article proposes that an expanded notion of knowledge can contribute to rethinking the epistemology of academic traditions, especially within Ethnography and Sociology.
Author: Luís Felipe Cardoso Mont’mór
Institution: Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Wenner-Gren Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W7122375480