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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... experience for a naive kid from rural Penn- sylvania . Had James Hatch not mentored a budding anthropologist , my career may never have happened . Joseph Michaels taught an archaeological method and theory course in those years that ...
... experience for a naive kid from rural Penn- sylvania . Had James Hatch not mentored a budding anthropologist , my career may never have happened . Joseph Michaels taught an archaeological method and theory course in those years that ...
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... experience . When I wrote the first edition of Reclaiming , I was a young scholar , fearful that there would not be a recognizable discipline from which I could retire . I still fear what the future of anthropology may be . How- ever ...
... experience . When I wrote the first edition of Reclaiming , I was a young scholar , fearful that there would not be a recognizable discipline from which I could retire . I still fear what the future of anthropology may be . How- ever ...
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... experiences as a maturing scholar only reinforced the need for a scientific anthropology , both to advance the discipline of anthropology and to lend some sanity in addressing today's concerns . One hears less standard Marxist rhetoric ...
... experiences as a maturing scholar only reinforced the need for a scientific anthropology , both to advance the discipline of anthropology and to lend some sanity in addressing today's concerns . One hears less standard Marxist rhetoric ...
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... experience in academia and elsewhere over these contentious issues is the result of misunderstandings and miscommunications . These arise not from regarding what people say , but from inventing strawman opponents who say what we want ...
... experience in academia and elsewhere over these contentious issues is the result of misunderstandings and miscommunications . These arise not from regarding what people say , but from inventing strawman opponents who say what we want ...
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... experienced ) observations . Science can address the mu- tation of DNA or the exchange of nutrients in an ecosystem . We can measure and observe these phenomena , and we are ultimately willing to abandon our theories about these ...
... experienced ) observations . Science can address the mu- tation of DNA or the exchange of nutrients in an ecosystem . We can measure and observe these phenomena , and we are ultimately willing to abandon our theories about these ...
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