Ignorance (Proctor & Schiebinger, 2008) are meant to encourage thinking about the
“structural production of ignorance”(p. 3). Like new work “making ignorance an ethnographic …

The study of ignorance, or agnotology, has many similarities with studies of absence. This
paper outlines a framework for agnotology which is shaped by interdisciplinary studies of …

The chapters that appear in this volume are based on a set of commissioned essays that
were initially written by, and then discussed among, a group of invited scholars. a number of …

AGNOTOLOGY Page 1 AGNOTOLOGY The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance Edited by
Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger Stanford University Press Stanford, California Page 2 …

Ignorance can take many forms—including ideologically inspired false consciousnes
innocence of blank slates, and the inability to comprehend some information. These of …

It is not surprising that anthropologists, being academics, should value knowledge. After all,
an academic life is a vocation to generate data, to act as a critic in order to detect and …

The question of ignorance occupies a central place in anthropological theory and practice.
This volume argues that the concept of ignorance has largely been pursued as the opposite …

Ignorance inevitably will be encountered in multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and
transdisciplinary dialogues, scholarship, and research. This Handbook is a source of starting …

As humans and as researchers, there is more that we do not know than we do know.
Analysis and the decisions eventually based on them are significantly shaped by this fact …

Ignorance in all its complexity is fast becoming a legitimate object of study that is gaining
increasing traction within the social sciences. This chapter certainly draws inspiration from …