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Informationen zum Autor Lawrence A. Kuznar is professor of anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne. Klappentext This second edition of Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology arrives at just the right time, as new advances in science increasingly affect anthropologists of all stripes. Lawrence Kuznar begins by reviewing the basic issues of scientific epistemology in anthropology as they have taken shape over the life of the discipline. He then describes postmodern and other critiques of both science and scientific anthropology, and he concludes with stringent analyses of these debates. This new edition brings this important text firmly into the 21st century; it not only updates the scholarly debates but it describes new research techniques-such as computer modeling systems-that could not have been imagined just a decade ago. In a field that has become increasingly divided over basic methods of reasearch and interpretation, Kuznar makes a powerful argument that anthropology should return to its roots in empirical science. Zusammenfassung Lawrence Kuznar makes a compelling case that it is even more important today! a decade after the publication of the first edition of Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology! for anthropology to return to its roots in empirical science. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface! First Edition Chapter 2 Preface! Second Edition Part 3 Part I Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 Chapter 1. Anthropological Science Chapter 6 Chapter 2. Science - Problems with Progress Chapter 7 Chapter 3. Anthropological Science - Two Examples Part 8 Part II Chapter 9 Chapter 4. The Postmodern Vanguard: Non-Traditional Critics of Science Chapter 10 Chapter 5. Elevating the Other/Looking Back Upon Ourselves: Postmodern and Critical Anthropology Chapter 11 Chapter 6. The Mutable Past: Postmodern Archaeology Part 12 Part III Chapter 13 Chapter 7. Strange Bedfellows: Comparison of Challenges to Scientific Anthropology Chapter 14 Chapter 8. Crusading Anthropology - The Case Against Chapter 15 Chapter 9. Computational Social Science: Adding Method to Madness Chapter 16 Chapter 10. Where Do We Go From Here? A Future Scientific Anthropology Chapter 17 References ...
