Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology

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Rowman Altamira, 1997 - Всего страниц: 284
A strong advocate for anthropology as a science, Lawrence Kuznar reviews the recent challenges to this ideology from creationists and 'scientific' racists on one side and postmodernists, marxists and feminists on the other. Moreover, Kuznar provides a brief review of anthropology as a science, summarizes major theoretical works in anthropology and other fields on the science/humanism debate, and offers several important case examples from cultural anthropology and archaeology showing science in action. An interesting, provocative book for anthropologists and ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate classes in theory and method.

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Anthropological Science
17
Definitions
20
Assumptions
26
Goals
30
Methodological Principles
35
Cycle of Science
45
ScienceProblems with Progress
51
Paradigms and Scientific Revolutions
52
The Authority Problem
148
PoliticsEthicsMorals
152
Summary
155
The Mutable Past Postmodern Archaeology
159
An Old New Thing
160
The Postmodern Past
162
Deconstructing ReConstructed Archaeology
166
A Comparison of Challenges to Scientific Anthropology
175

Progress on Progress
58
The DuhemQunie Thesis
62
Two Examples of Anthropological Science
67
Man the Hunter
68
History of Hopewell Research
79
Traditionalist Critiques of Anthropological Science
93
Creationism
94
Scientism and Politics
101
The Postmodern Vanguard NonTraditional Critics of Science
109
Anything Goes
110
Women Science and Knowledge
115
The Development of the Postmodern Movement
120
Summary
129
Elevating the OtherLooking Back Upon Ourselves Postmodern and Critical Anthropology
131
History of Postmodern Anthropology
133
The Reality Question
138
The Crisis of Representation
142
The Science Question
144
A Literary Bent
176
Misunderstanding the Scientific Process
177
The Conspiracy Theories
182
An Achilles Heel
184
The Engine of Sciences Critiques
186
What Criticism Can Do for Anthropological Science
189
The Case Against Crusading Anthropology
193
Anthropology as Western Capitalist PropagandaThe Myth
195
Navajo Stock Reduction
197
Ethics and Anthropology
201
Where Do We Go From Here? A Future for Scientific Anthropology
211
A Really Scientific Anthropology
213
Practicing a Scientific Anthropology
217
Allowing Text Idea and Science to Work Together
219
References Cited
225
Index
269
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