The Knower's Lens
Culture
The shared practices, language and inherited assumptions of a community of knowers. Culture supplies the questions that seem worth asking and the answers that seem obvious, so its influence is hardest to see from inside it.
How the knower shapes knowledge. These concepts ask what the knower contributes to what is known, and why two careful people looking at the same thing can arrive somewhere different.
Situations that raise culture
All 44 situationsReal cases a class can argue about, where this concept is what is actually at stake.
- Recognised as indigenous, at lastEast Asia
- The book that named algebraThe Middle East and North Africa
- The divers evolution equippedSoutheast Asia
- Batik and the question of whose heritageSoutheast Asia
- A dance banned, then rebuiltIndia
- Measuring national happinessSouth Asia
- The hand that knows the strokeEast Asia
- Simplifying the charactersEast Asia