{"product_id":"capturing-the-ineffable-an-anthropology-of-wisdom-hardcover","title":"Capturing the Ineffable: An Anthropology of Wisdom - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip Y. Kao\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJoseph S. Alter\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in ethnographic case studies that examine experiences from which wisdom emerges, \u003ci\u003eCapturing the Ineffable\u003c\/i\u003e provides a rigorous analysis of the sociocultural context of wisdom in the contemporary world. Each chapter in the volume deals with different aspects and showcases how communities in different contexts - nursing homes, religious organizations, corporations, and monastic institutions, for example - engage with the ineffability of wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors draw from a range of disciplines and cross-cultural and historical data in order to interpret the meaning and value of wisdom as a human endeavour. This book also represents an anthropological method for evaluating various philosophical and scientific approaches to understanding wisdom, including how wisdom is learned and taught. Readers will be able to appreciate how action, emotion, uncertainty, and cultural systems come to bear on wisdom as a value in human life and expression. In the end, \u003ci\u003eCapturing the Ineffable\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how the conception and paradoxical nature of wisdom dispels the dichotomies of self\/other, structure\/agency, known\/unknown, nature\/culture, and the like. What is at stake is a recasting of wisdom as a particular kind of anthropological endeavour and, thus, a return to and modification of philosophical anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Y. Kao\u003c\/b\u003e is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoseph S. Alter\u003c\/b\u003e is the director of the Asian Studies Center and a professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 18, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53425675665715,"sku":"9781487503130","price":166.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/NQB4um-dRW9781487503130.webp?v=1780520109","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/capturing-the-ineffable-an-anthropology-of-wisdom-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}