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: 9781845205003
Subjects: Anthropology -- Philosophy.; Science -- Philosophy.; Science -- Social aspects.; Science and civilization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : epistemologies in practice / Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade; value: Astrophysics, anthropology, and other imperial pursuits / Simon Schaffer; value: Industry going public : rethinking knowledge and administration / Alberto Corsín Jiménez; value: Rationality and contingency : rhetoric, practice and legitimation in Almaty, Kazakhstan / Catherine Alexander; value: Information society Finnish-style, or an anthropological view of the modern / Eeva Berglund; value: Nga rakau a te pakeha : reconsidering Maori anthropology / Amiria Henare; value: The second nuclear age / Hugh Gusterson; value: Genealogical hybridities : the making and unmaking of blood relatives and predictive knowledge in breast cancer genetics / Sahra Gibbon; value: Where do we find our monsters? / Debbora Battaglia; value: Echolocation in Bolivip / Tony Crook; value: Being human in a dualistically-conceived embodied world : Descartes' dualism and Sakais' universalist concepts of (altered) consciousness, inner-knowledge and self / Nathan Porath.