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9781845205003

Anthropology and Science Epistemologies in Practice

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    9781845205003

  • ISBN10:

    1845205006

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-06-15
  • Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

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Summary

What does it mean to know something - scientifically, anthropologically, socially? What is the relationship between different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing? How is knowledge mobilized in society and to what ends?

Author Biography

Jeanette Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. Penny Harvey is Professor of Social Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributorsp. vii
Introduction: Epistemologies in Practicep. 1
Astrophysics, Anthropology and Other Imperial Pursuitsp. 19
Industry Going Public: Rethinking Knowledge and Administrationp. 39
Rationality and Contingency: Rhetoric, Practice and Legitimation in Almaty, Kazakhstanp. 58
Information Society Finnish-style, or an Anthropological View of the Modernp. 75
Nga Rakau a te Pakeha: Reconsidering Maori Anthropologyp. 93
The Second Nuclear Agep. 114
Genealogical Hybridities: The Making and Unmaking of Blood Relatives and Predictive Knowledge in Breast Cancer Geneticsp. 133
Where Do We Find Our Monsters?p. 153
Echolocation in Bolivipp. 170
Being Human in a Dualistically-Conceived Embodied World: Descartes' Dualism and Sakais' Universalist Concepts of (Altered) Consciousness, Inner-Knowledge and Selfp. 187
Indexp. 205
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