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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... 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 , Science , and Knowledge The vii Contents.
... 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 , Science , and Knowledge The vii Contents.
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... Postmodern Movement Summary 5 Elevating the Other / Looking Back upon Ourselves : Postmodern 74 77 85 and Critical Anthropology History of Postmodern Anthropology The Reality Question The Crisis of Representation 87 88 93 96 The Science ...
... Postmodern Movement Summary 5 Elevating the Other / Looking Back upon Ourselves : Postmodern 74 77 85 and Critical Anthropology History of Postmodern Anthropology The Reality Question The Crisis of Representation 87 88 93 96 The Science ...
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... Postmodern rhetoric is de rigueur and quantitative methods , the idea of hypothesis testing , and rigorous logic are rarely taught ; that objectivity is a mere chimera is patently assumed and the move toward a politicized anthro- pology ...
... Postmodern rhetoric is de rigueur and quantitative methods , the idea of hypothesis testing , and rigorous logic are rarely taught ; that objectivity is a mere chimera is patently assumed and the move toward a politicized anthro- pology ...
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... postmodern thinkers into more scientific frames to advance social theory in scientific ways . Philosophers of science have continued to debate and focus the issues concerning causality in the sciences . Complexity theorists have made ...
... postmodern thinkers into more scientific frames to advance social theory in scientific ways . Philosophers of science have continued to debate and focus the issues concerning causality in the sciences . Complexity theorists have made ...
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... postmodern critiques of science and anthropology . This updated section continues to be necessary since so many anthropologists simply ignore the historical writings of both scientific anthropology and postmodernism . One major change ...
... postmodern critiques of science and anthropology . This updated section continues to be necessary since so many anthropologists simply ignore the historical writings of both scientific anthropology and postmodernism . One major change ...
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