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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... philosophers , and I also am greatly in their debt . Richard Watson and Clyde Holler both spent much time and effort providing detailed and unforgiving criticism of the manuscript . They helped me realize that we as anthropologists do ...
... philosophers , and I also am greatly in their debt . Richard Watson and Clyde Holler both spent much time and effort providing detailed and unforgiving criticism of the manuscript . They helped me realize that we as anthropologists do ...
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... that no matter what the philosophers say , there is a reality . Lawrence A. Kuznar Warren , Pennsylvania July 4 , 1994 Preface and Acknowledgments Second Edition Much has transpired in the xvi Preface and Acknowledgments , First Edition.
... that no matter what the philosophers say , there is a reality . Lawrence A. Kuznar Warren , Pennsylvania July 4 , 1994 Preface and Acknowledgments Second Edition Much has transpired in the xvi Preface and Acknowledgments , First Edition.
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... Philosophers of science have continued to debate and focus the issues concerning causality in the sciences . Complexity theorists have made quantum advances in scientists ' appreciation of what complex systems are and how they relate to ...
... Philosophers of science have continued to debate and focus the issues concerning causality in the sciences . Complexity theorists have made quantum advances in scientists ' appreciation of what complex systems are and how they relate to ...
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... philosopher friends and colleagues , including Ken Long , Jeff Strayer , and Duston Moore , provided me with collaboration and many mind - numbing but enriching hours of philosophical debate . Anthropologists such as Doug White , Mike ...
... philosopher friends and colleagues , including Ken Long , Jeff Strayer , and Duston Moore , provided me with collaboration and many mind - numbing but enriching hours of philosophical debate . Anthropologists such as Doug White , Mike ...
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... philosophers and remain inacces- sible to nonscientists , and barely accessible to scientists . I will provide a definition of science that hopefully will be true to philosophers ' ideals as well as intelligible to scientists . In the ...
... philosophers and remain inacces- sible to nonscientists , and barely accessible to scientists . I will provide a definition of science that hopefully will be true to philosophers ' ideals as well as intelligible to scientists . In the ...
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