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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPostmodernists and moralists will not like this book, but they will have difficulty dismissing Kuznar's critique. This books brings together a historical survey with contemporary arguments about science, demonstrating that most of the current anti-science arguments have been answered at length by philosophers of science. -- Roy D'Andrade, (University of California, San Diego)
Kuznar makes a strident plea for putting some semblance of science back into anthropology….An obvious acquisition for college and university libraries where there are broad programs in humanities and the sciences. * CHOICE *
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 *
A timely, thoughtful and civil intervention in the disputes that dominate our fractious discipline. -- Marvin Harris, University of Florida
Table of ContentsChapter 1 1. Introduction Chapter 2 2. Anthropological Science Chapter 3 3. Science: problems with Progress Chapter 4 4. Anthropological Science: Two Examples Part 5 II Chapter 6 5. Traditionalist Critiques of Anthropological Science Chapter 7 6. The Postmodern Vanguard: Non-Traditional Critics of Science Chapter 8 7. Elevating the Other Chapter 9 8. The Mutable Past: Postmodern Archaeology Part 10 III Chapter 11 9. Strange Bedfellows: Comparison of Challenges to Scientific Anthropology Chapter 12 10. Crusading Anthropology: The Case Against Chapter 13 11. Where Do We Go from Here? Chapter 14 References
