Reclaiming a Scientific AnthropologyAltaMira Press, 11 sept 2008 - 266 páginas This second edition of Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology arrives at just the right time, as new advances in science increasingly affect anthropologists of all stripes. Lawrence Kuznar begins by reviewing the basic issues of scientific epistemology in anthropology as they have taken shape over the life of the discipline. He then describes postmodern and other critiques of both science and scientific anthropology, and he concludes with stringent analyses of these debates. This new edition brings this important text firmly into the 21st century; it not only updates the scholarly debates but it describes new research techniques—such as computer modeling systems—that could not have been imagined just a decade ago. In a field that has become increasingly divided over basic methods of reasearch and interpretation, Kuznar makes a powerful argument that anthropology should return to its roots in empirical science. |
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Lawrence A. Kuznar. Sandra Harding : Women , Science , and Knowledge The Development of the Postmodern Movement Summary 5 Elevating the Other / Looking Back upon Ourselves : Postmodern 74 77 85 and Critical Anthropology History of ...
Lawrence A. Kuznar. Sandra Harding : Women , Science , and Knowledge The Development of the Postmodern Movement Summary 5 Elevating the Other / Looking Back upon Ourselves : Postmodern 74 77 85 and Critical Anthropology History of ...
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Lawrence A. Kuznar. this political shift in focus , anthropologists will increasingly abandon even the tentative and partial truths created through science . Perhaps this book can serve as a corrective to this trend . I have written this ...
Lawrence A. Kuznar. this political shift in focus , anthropologists will increasingly abandon even the tentative and partial truths created through science . Perhaps this book can serve as a corrective to this trend . I have written this ...
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Lawrence A. Kuznar. ogy may become if it is sold out to the highest bidders— anthropologists must remain vigilant in defending their science against theories their benefactors favor . Anthropology is on a knife - edge of history ...
Lawrence A. Kuznar. ogy may become if it is sold out to the highest bidders— anthropologists must remain vigilant in defending their science against theories their benefactors favor . Anthropology is on a knife - edge of history ...
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Lawrence A. Kuznar. and the Native American roots of Hopewellian culture and its actual nature . Part II reviews postmodern critiques of science and anthropology . This updated section continues to be necessary since so many ...
Lawrence A. Kuznar. and the Native American roots of Hopewellian culture and its actual nature . Part II reviews postmodern critiques of science and anthropology . This updated section continues to be necessary since so many ...
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Lawrence A. Kuznar. lution can potentially foster a democratization of knowledge , but it can also proliferate distortions of fact . Ironically , while more people in more places have access to one another through cyber communications ...
Lawrence A. Kuznar. lution can potentially foster a democratization of knowledge , but it can also proliferate distortions of fact . Ironically , while more people in more places have access to one another through cyber communications ...
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