Reclaiming a Scientific AnthropologyAltaMira Press, 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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... agendas influ- ence the science anthropologists do , the reason why people were able to use forager lifestyles to advance an agenda is because the data indicated that old stereotypes were empirically incorrect . Furthermore , the data ...
... agendas influ- ence the science anthropologists do , the reason why people were able to use forager lifestyles to advance an agenda is because the data indicated that old stereotypes were empirically incorrect . Furthermore , the data ...
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... agenda ( 1991 : 185 ) . Clearly , part of this agenda involves emancipating the oppressed , although Harding does not specify what emancipation entails . The frequent calls on behalf of the oppressed , and her aim of stemming the flow ...
... agenda ( 1991 : 185 ) . Clearly , part of this agenda involves emancipating the oppressed , although Harding does not specify what emancipation entails . The frequent calls on behalf of the oppressed , and her aim of stemming the flow ...
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... agenda and attempt to cast an argument that would support such an agenda by deductively arriving at a logical conclusion that conveniently supports their politics . It should not be surprising that in each of these logical experiments ...
... agenda and attempt to cast an argument that would support such an agenda by deductively arriving at a logical conclusion that conveniently supports their politics . It should not be surprising that in each of these logical experiments ...
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