Anthropology And Science
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Anthropology And Political Science
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Author : Myron J. Aronoff
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2013
Anthropology And Political Science written by Myron J. Aronoff and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Political Science categories.
What can anthropology and political science learn from each other? The authors argue that collaboration, particularly in the area of concepts and methodologies, is tremendously beneficial for both disciplines, though they also deal with some troubling aspects of the relationship. Focusing on the influence of anthropology on political science, the book examines the basic assumptions the practitioners of each discipline make about the nature of social and political reality, compares some of the key concepts each field employs, and provides an extensive review of the basic methods of research that "bridge" both disciplines: ethnography and case study. Through ethnography (participant observation), reliance on extended case studies, and the use of "anthropological" concepts and sensibilities, a greater understanding of some of the most challenging issues of the day can be gained. For example, political anthropology challenges the illusion of the "autonomy of the political" assumed by political science to characterize so-called modern societies. Several chapters include a cross-disciplinary analysis of key concepts and issues: political culture, political ritual, the politics of collective identity, democratization in divided societies, conflict resolution, civil society, and the politics of post-Communist transformations.
Cognitive Foundations Of Natural History
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Author : Scott Atran
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993-01-29
Cognitive Foundations Of Natural History written by Scott Atran and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-29 with Science categories.
Inspired by a debate between Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget, this work traces the development of natural history from Aristotle to Darwin, and demonstrates how the science of plants and animals has emerged from the common conceptions of folkbiology.
Evidence Ethos And Experiment
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Author : P. Wenzel Geissler
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2011-09-01
Evidence Ethos And Experiment written by P. Wenzel Geissler and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with Social Science categories.
Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local concerns are prompting calls for social studies of the “trial communities” produced by this scientific work. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.
On The Order Of Chaos
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Author : Mark S. Mosko
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2005
On The Order Of Chaos written by Mark S. Mosko and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Science categories.
The essays in this volume collectively transform perspectives previously experienced as divergent, conflicting, and inconsistent into a common and complex orientation to problems central to the natural and social sciences involving transitions between order and disorder."--Jacket.
Clinically Applied Anthropology
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Author : N. Chrisman
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1982-09-30
Clinically Applied Anthropology written by N. Chrisman and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-09-30 with Social Science categories.
The New Science Of The Enchanted Universe
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Author : Marshall Sahlins
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2023-12-05
The New Science Of The Enchanted Universe written by Marshall Sahlins and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-05 with History categories.
"The vast majority of human societies known to us have been organized along "immanentist" lines. In such societies, as Marshall Sahlins argues, everything we associate with religion, gods and spirits of every sort is part of the daily, embodied (immanent) lives of people. Plants and animals have souls and the same essential attributes as other persons, and supposedly long-dead ancestors continue to live among people, communicate with them, and have sway over the course of events. In this "enchanted" type of society, there is no strict separation between economics, politics, religion, philosophy, and culture. Some 2,500 years ago, at the dawn of the so-called Axial Age, a radical transformation in human societies began when civilizations spread around the globe from their origins in Greece, the Near East, northern India, and China. These civilizations effected a cultural revolution, creating a new type of society in which the things we typically associate with religion move from immanent infrastructure to transcendent superstructure. Only in a transcendentalist society does it make sense to speak of a god or God, and of a heaven, "out there," "above us," or in a separate realm entirely. And only in such a society do we have a division of labour separating out an economic sphere from a political sphere and a sphere of culture. Transcendentalist worldviews and modes of life are, of course, pervasive today. They are so much a part of who we are that when we attempt to understand the nature and workings of immanentist societies, we often misdescribe them in transcendentalist terms. This confusion, observes Sahlins, has long bedeviled the social sciences and consequently has impeded our understanding of many Indigenous religions and worldviews past and present. Sahlins, drawing on a vast array of recent and older ethnographic and historical research, offers this book as both diagnosis of these ills and a call to correction-to develop a "new science" that would be better positioned to grasp the realities of immanentist societies, and to take seriously the cultures of others"--
Anthropology At War
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Author : Andrew D. Evans
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-09-15
Anthropology At War written by Andrew D. Evans and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-15 with History categories.
Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war but its development was profoundly altered by the conflict. Combining intellectual and cultural history with the history of science, this book examines both the origins and consequences of this shift.
Anthropology And Science
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Author : Jeanette Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-10-26
Anthropology And Science written by Jeanette Edwards and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with Science categories.
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 mobilised in society and to what ends? Drawing on ethnographic examples from across the world, and from the virtual and global 'places' created by new information technologies, Anthropology and Science presents examples of living and dynamic epistemologies and practices, and of how scientific ways of knowing operate in the world. Authors address the nature of both scientific and experiential knowledge, and look at competing and alternative ideas about what it means to be human. The essays analyze the politics and ethics of positioning 'science', 'culture' or 'society' as authoritative. They explore how certain modes of knowing are made authoritative and command allegiance (or not), and look at scientific and other rationalities - whether these challenge or are compatible with science.
The Routledge Companion To Contemporary Anthropology
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Author : Simon Coleman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-11-25
The Routledge Companion To Contemporary Anthropology written by Simon Coleman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-25 with Social Science categories.
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology is an invaluable guide and major reference source for students and scholars alike, introducing its readers to key contemporary perspectives and approaches within the field. Written by an experienced international team of contributors, with an interdisciplinary range of essays, this collection provides a powerful overview of the transformations currently affecting anthropology. The volume both addresses the concerns of the discipline and comments on its construction through texts, classroom interactions, engagements with various publics, and changing relations with other academic subjects. Persuasively demonstrating that a number of key contemporary issues can be usefully analyzed through an anthropological lens, the contributors cover important topics such as globalization, law and politics, collaborative archaeology, economics, religion, citizenship and community, health, and the environment. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology is a fascinating examination of this lively and constantly evolving discipline.
Reclaiming A Scientific Anthropology
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Author : Lawrence A. Kuznar
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2008-09-11
Reclaiming A Scientific Anthropology written by Lawrence A. Kuznar and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-11 with Social Science categories.
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.