Annual Report FY 2004 - Research at Cornell
 

14. Hirokazu Miyazaki, Anthropology

The Method of Hope: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian Knowledge (Stanford University Press, 2004). Miyazaki examines the relationship between hope and knowledge by investigating how hope is produced in various forms of knowledge—Fijian, philosophical, anthropological. Miyazaki describes the book as “an ethnographic demonstration of a very simple argument: hope is a method of knowledge for apprehending a present moment of knowing.” The book discusses the hope entailed in a wide range of Fijian knowledge practices such as archival research, gift giving, Christian church rituals, and business practices, and compares it with the concept of hope in the work of philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, and Richard Rorty. The book aims to carve out a space for a new kind of relationship between anthropology and philosophy.

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