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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... cultural , and ethical biases . The question we face is whether we want to go in a direction that will increase the partialness and bias of our accounts or continue to struggle against these distort- ing influences and honestly confront ...
... cultural , and ethical biases . The question we face is whether we want to go in a direction that will increase the partialness and bias of our accounts or continue to struggle against these distort- ing influences and honestly confront ...
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... cultural anthropology and bio- anthropology and archaeology . A year after the first edition of Reclaiming , Stanford's anthropology department split into departments of anthropological science and cultural and social anthropology ...
... cultural anthropology and bio- anthropology and archaeology . A year after the first edition of Reclaiming , Stanford's anthropology department split into departments of anthropological science and cultural and social anthropology ...
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... cultural awareness of U.S. forces . So , much has happened and little has changed in the discipline and many of the issues that inspired the first edition remain current . Much has happened in the world outside anthropology as well . A ...
... cultural awareness of U.S. forces . So , much has happened and little has changed in the discipline and many of the issues that inspired the first edition remain current . Much has happened in the world outside anthropology as well . A ...
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... cultural anthropology has witnessed an emergence of canonical writers such as Clifford ( 1986a , 1986b ) , Marcus and Fischer ( 1986 ) , Rabinow ( 1986 ) , and Tyler ( 1986 , 1991 ) . Finally , a postmodern archaeology has developed its ...
... cultural anthropology has witnessed an emergence of canonical writers such as Clifford ( 1986a , 1986b ) , Marcus and Fischer ( 1986 ) , Rabinow ( 1986 ) , and Tyler ( 1986 , 1991 ) . Finally , a postmodern archaeology has developed its ...
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... cultural revisionists , sci- ence is the ultimate in revisionism . I have defined science as a method of knowing based on falsification , and it is important that current debates regarding science are debates concerning different ways ...
... cultural revisionists , sci- ence is the ultimate in revisionism . I have defined science as a method of knowing based on falsification , and it is important that current debates regarding science are debates concerning different ways ...
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