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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... Examples 45 Man the Hunter 46 History of Hopewell Research 55 PART II : CRITIQUES OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE 4 The Postmodern Vanguard : Nontraditional Critics of Science Paul Feyerabend - Anything Goes 69 69 Sandra Harding : Women ...
... Examples 45 Man the Hunter 46 History of Hopewell Research 55 PART II : CRITIQUES OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE 4 The Postmodern Vanguard : Nontraditional Critics of Science Paul Feyerabend - Anything Goes 69 69 Sandra Harding : Women ...
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... example and his informing me of its significance as an example of anthropological science . Alan Sandstrom and Pamela Sandstrom provided other useful examples . My sociology colleagues also graciously put up with my writing this book ...
... example and his informing me of its significance as an example of anthropological science . Alan Sandstrom and Pamela Sandstrom provided other useful examples . My sociology colleagues also graciously put up with my writing this book ...
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... examples indicate that scientific progress has indeed been made in understanding of forager societies , the division of labor by sex , mate selection , and the Native American roots of Hopewellian culture and its Preface and ...
... examples indicate that scientific progress has indeed been made in understanding of forager societies , the division of labor by sex , mate selection , and the Native American roots of Hopewellian culture and its Preface and ...
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... examples ( which were from sociobiology ) , rather than the topic he was teaching . The course never went anywhere . A verbal battle ensued , students huffed off in moral indignation , and we all remained as ignorant as the day class ...
... examples ( which were from sociobiology ) , rather than the topic he was teaching . The course never went anywhere . A verbal battle ensued , students huffed off in moral indignation , and we all remained as ignorant as the day class ...
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... examples will illustrate my point . My colleague , Paul Provost , once lost an argument in a Mexican Indian vil- lage regarding whether or not the sun rotated around the earth . He , of course , being the Western scientist , informed ...
... examples will illustrate my point . My colleague , Paul Provost , once lost an argument in a Mexican Indian vil- lage regarding whether or not the sun rotated around the earth . He , of course , being the Western scientist , informed ...
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