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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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Preface, Second Edition
Part 3 Part I
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 Chapter 1. Anthropological Science
Chapter 6 Chapter 2. Science - Problems with Progress
Chapter 7 Chapter 3. Anthropological Science - Two Examples
Part 8 Part II
Chapter 9 Chapter 4. The Postmodern Vanguard: Non-Traditional Critics of Science
Chapter 10 Chapter 5. Elevating the Other/Looking Back Upon Ourselves: Postmodern and Critical Anthropology
Chapter 11 Chapter 6. The Mutable Past: Postmodern Archaeology
Part 12 Part III
Chapter 13 Chapter 7. Strange Bedfellows: Comparison of Challenges to Scientific Anthropology
Chapter 14 Chapter 8. Crusading Anthropology - The Case Against
Chapter 15 Chapter 9. Computational Social Science: Adding Method to Madness
Chapter 16 Chapter 10. Where Do We Go From Here? A Future Scientific Anthropology
Chapter 17 References
Product details
| Published | 11 Sep 2008 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Extent | 266 |
| ISBN | 9798216267409 |
| Imprint | AltaMira Press |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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