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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... assumptions , goals , and methods of anthropological science . ASSUMPTIONS Several of the definitions reviewed above contained rhetoric about investigat- ing the world , but what does a scientist mean by that ? We all possess a unique ...
... assumptions , goals , and methods of anthropological science . ASSUMPTIONS Several of the definitions reviewed above contained rhetoric about investigat- ing the world , but what does a scientist mean by that ? We all possess a unique ...
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... assumptions , a test of a single hypothesis really reflects upon this larger system of hypotheses and assumptions ( Duhem 1976 : 8 ) . His position is known as the weak form of the Duhem - Quine thesis ( Harding 1976 ) . Not only is ...
... assumptions , a test of a single hypothesis really reflects upon this larger system of hypotheses and assumptions ( Duhem 1976 : 8 ) . His position is known as the weak form of the Duhem - Quine thesis ( Harding 1976 ) . Not only is ...
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... assumptions undergirding the hypothesis . There is simply no logical reason why this must be so ; one can imagine that it is possible to do this , but it is not inevitable that alternative assumptions always can be derived to save the ...
... assumptions undergirding the hypothesis . There is simply no logical reason why this must be so ; one can imagine that it is possible to do this , but it is not inevitable that alternative assumptions always can be derived to save the ...
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