Naked Science
Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power and Knowledge
Laura Nader(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 6. June 1996
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-415-91464-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is a collection of essays on different science traditions by scholars in the social sciences. The contributors demystify formal, Western science and encourage readers to "think of science in the plural and in lower-case". Anthropologists have tended to demarcate science as a domain that is separate from indigenous systems of knowledge. By drawing these boundaries, anthropologists have priviledged science and increased its power. The value of pulling together these different papers is that when science is viewed cross-culturally it becomes one of many knowledge traditions. The book covers different science cultures: physics, molecular biology, primatology, and ecology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-91464-2 (9780415914642)
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