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Title:
The Folk and the Formal: Common Sense, Experience, and Official Authority in East Asia
Speaker:
Professor Judith Farquhar (Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences; Chairperrson, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago)
Date:
October 20, 2011
Time:
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Venue:
Reading Room, Ground Floor, Tang Chi Ngong Building, The University of Hong Kong
Language:
English
Enquiry:
This panel will discuss various examples of interactions between popular knowledge and elite-led knowledge production, between common sense and formal science, between valued experience and proven fact. The historical and sociological theories and methods that can reveal the complex interweaving of folklore and formalized knowledge will also be explored.
Centre for the Humanities and Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
