Reclaiming a Scientific AnthropologyRowman Altamira, 2008 - 229 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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Índice
Anthropological Science | 3 |
DEFINITIONS | 6 |
ASSUMPTIONS | 11 |
GOALS | 15 |
METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES | 19 |
CYCLE OF SCIENCE | 27 |
ScienceProblems with Progress | 31 |
PARADIGMS AND SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS | 32 |
DECONSTRUCTING RECONSTRUCTED ARCHAEOLOGY | 116 |
Strange Bedfellows A Comparison of Challenges to Scientific Anthropology | 125 |
A LITERARY BENT | 126 |
MISUNDERSTANDING THE SCIENTIFIC PROCESS | 127 |
THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES | 130 |
AN ACHILLES HEEL | 132 |
THE ENGINE OF SCIENCES CRITICS | 133 |
WHAT CRITICISM CAN DO FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE | 135 |
PROGRESS ON PROGRESS | 37 |
THE DUHEMQUINE THESIS | 41 |
Anthropological ScienceTwo Examples | 45 |
MAN THE HUNTER | 46 |
HISTORY OF HOPEWELL RESEARCH | 55 |
The Postmodern Vanguard Nontraditional Critics of Science | 69 |
WOMEN SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE | 74 |
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POSTMODERN MOVEMENT | 77 |
SUMMARY | 85 |
Elevating the OtherLooking Back upon Ourselves Postmodern and Critical Anthropology | 87 |
HISTORY OF POSTMODERN ANTHROPOLOGY | 88 |
THE REALITY QUESTION | 93 |
THE CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION | 96 |
THE SCIENCE QUESTION | 97 |
THE AUTHORITY PROBLEM | 101 |
POLITICSETHICSMORALS | 104 |
SUMMARY | 107 |
The Mutable Past Postmodern Archaeology | 111 |
THE POSTMODERN PAST | 113 |
The Case against Crusading Anthropology | 137 |
PROPAGANDATHE MYTH | 138 |
NAVAJO STOCK REDUCTION | 140 |
ETHICS AND ANTHROPOLOGY | 143 |
Computational Social Science Adding Method to Madness | 155 |
COMPLEXITY THEORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY | 157 |
COMPLEXITY THEORY IN CLASSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY | 158 |
BOURDIEU AND GIDDENS | 159 |
HOW MODELING BRIDGES THE GAP | 162 |
CONCLUSION | 169 |
Where Do We Go from Here? A Future for Scientific Anthropology | 171 |
A REALLY SCIENTIFIC ANTHROPOLOGY | 172 |
PRACTICING A SCIENTIFIC ANTHROPOLOGY | 176 |
ALLOWING TEXT IDEA AND SCIENCE TO WORK TOGETHER | 178 |
References | 183 |
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