Anthropology and science  epistemologies in practice /. 

 - IX, 208 p. ;. 
 - ASA monographs ;  43 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : epistemologies in practice / Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade -- Astrophysics, anthropology, and other imperial pursuits / Simon Schaffer -- Industry going public : rethinking knowledge and administration / Alberto Corsin Jimenez -- Rationality and contingency : rhetoric, practice and legitimation in Almaty, Kazakhstan / Catherine Alexander -- Information society Finnish-style, or an anthropological view of the modern / Eeva Berglund -- Nga rakau a te pakeha : reconsidering Maori anthropology / Amiria Henare -- The second nuclear age / Hugh Gusterson -- Genealogical hybridities : the making and unmaking of blood relatives and predictive knowledge in breast cancer genetics / Sahra Gibbon -- Where do we find our monsters? / Debbora Battaglia -- Echolocation in Bolivip / Tony Crook -- Being human in a dualistically-conceived embodied world : Descartes' dualism and Sakais' universalist concepts of (altered) consciousness, inner-knowledge and self / Nathan Porath. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1845205006 (pbk.) 9781845205003 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Anthropology--Philosophy<br/>Science and civilization<br/>Science--Philosophy<br/>Science--Social aspects