Anthropology and science epistemologies in practice /.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publisher: Oxford Berg 2007Description: IX, 208 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1845205006 (pbk.)
  • 9781845205003 (pbk.)
Subject(s):
Contents:
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.
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book Library of Ethnosociology & Ethnohistory 120.681 ASE Available 7729769-10

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.