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Book SynopsisThis 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 techniquessuch as computer modeling systemsthat 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.
Trade ReviewPraise for the previous edition: What makes this book so useful for students and teachers of undergraduate and graduate classes on anthropological research?is that it is a careful, reasoned attempt to put something back, after the certainties have beenremoved from under students' feet.... * Critique Of Anthropology *
Praise for the previous edition: What makes this book so useful for students and teachers of undergraduate and graduate classes on anthropological research…is that it is a careful, reasoned attempt to put something back, after the certainties have been removed from under students' feet. * Critique Of Anthropology *
Table of ContentsChapter 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
