Anthropology and Science Epistemologies in Practice

, by Edwards, Jeanette; Harvey, Penny; Wade, Peter

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ISBN: 9781845205003 | 1845205006
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Copyright: 6/15/2008

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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?

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