Anthropology and science
Subtitle: epistemologies in practice
By: edited by Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade.
Contributors: Edwards, Jeanette, 1954-; Harvey, Penelope, 1956-; Wade, Peter, 1957-
Series: ASA monographs -- 43.; A.S.A. monographs -- 43.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781845204990; 9781845205003
Subjects: Anthropology -- Philosophy; Science -- Philosophy; Science -- Social aspects; Science and civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : epistemologies in practice / Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade; title: Astrophysics, anthropology, and other imperial pursuits / Simon Schaffer; title: Industry going public : rethinking knowledge and administration / Alberto Corsín Jiménez; title: Rationality and contingency : rhetoric, practice and legitimation in Almaty, Kazakhstan / Catherine Alexander; title: Information society Finnish-style, or an anthropological view of the modern / Eeva Berglund; title: Nga rakau a te pakeha : reconsidering Maori anthropology / Amiria Henare; title: The second nuclear age / Hugh Gusterson; title: Genealogical hybridities : the making and unmaking of blood relatives and predictive knowledge in breast cancer genetics / Sahra Gibbon; title: Where do we find our monsters? / Debbora Battaglia; title: Echolocation in Bolivip / Tony Crook; title: Being human in a dualistically-conceived embodied world : Descartes' dualism and Sakais' universalist concepts of (altered) consciousness, inner-knowledge and self / Nathan Porath.