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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... theoretical construct is a repre- sentation of reality , mitigated by cultural and theoretical biases , the state of empirical knowledge , and one's powers of observation . The aim is to limit the influence of these mitigating factors ...
... theoretical construct is a repre- sentation of reality , mitigated by cultural and theoretical biases , the state of empirical knowledge , and one's powers of observation . The aim is to limit the influence of these mitigating factors ...
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... theoretical candor of its author , the explicitness with which the author describes his or her fieldwork , evidence of how observation notes are transformed into data , and evidence of actual field notes . An ethnography as a collection ...
... theoretical candor of its author , the explicitness with which the author describes his or her fieldwork , evidence of how observation notes are transformed into data , and evidence of actual field notes . An ethnography as a collection ...
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... theoretical problems or empirical patterns , fit the definition of a scientific theory , and are testable and logical ) . Lewis Binford ( 1982 : 127 ) offered the following criteria for warranting a theory worthy of scientific ...
... theoretical problems or empirical patterns , fit the definition of a scientific theory , and are testable and logical ) . Lewis Binford ( 1982 : 127 ) offered the following criteria for warranting a theory worthy of scientific ...
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