Author: Edwards, Jeanette (1954-). Harvey, Penelope (1956-). Wade, Peter (1957-)
Title: Anthropology and science : epistemologies in practice / edited by Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade
Description: Oxford ; New York : Berg 2007. 1st edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: ix. 208 pages; 24 cm. Notes: Papers presented at the Fifth Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists. Manchester University. 14th - 18th July. 2003. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 Corsín Jiménez -- 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. Subjects: Anthropology Philosophy. Science Philosophy. Science and civilization. Anthropological aspects. Genre: Bibliography. ISBN: 1845205006.

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