Knowledge in Practice: Expertise and the Transmission of Knowledge

Edited by Kai Kresse

July, 2009
Paper, 160 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3889-5
Edinburgh University Press
$32.50

Scholars explore the exercise of expertise and the criteria by which expert knowledge is judged and validated. Grounded in fieldwork among weavers, builders, healers, diviners, poets, and Islamic scholars, essays reflect upon the words and deeds of skilled practitioners as they are enacted in ritual and the sacred, as well as in everyday life and work.

Related Subjects

• Anthropology

About the Author

Kai Kresse is lecturer in anthropology at the University of St. Andrews and vice-director for research development at the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.

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