Why I Am Not a Scientist Anthropology and Modern Knowledge

Name: Why I Am Not a Scientist Anthropology and Modern Knowledge
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ISBN: 9780520259607

ISBN-10: 0520259602

ISBN-13: 9780520259607

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jonathan Marks, J. Marks

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This lively and provocative book casts an anthropological eye on the field of science in a wide-ranging discussion that integrates philosophy, history, sociology, and auto-ethnography into an innovative anthropology of science. Jonathan Marks examines biological anthropology, the history of the life sciences, and the literature of science studies, while upending common understandings of science and culture with a mixture of anthropology, common sense, and disarming humor. Science, Marks argues, is widely accepted to be three different things: a method of understanding and a means to establishing facts about the universe, the facts themselves, and a voice of authority or a locus of cultural…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface



Science as a Culture and as a "Side"



The Scientific Revolution



Normative Science



Science as Practice



The Problem of Creationism



Bogus Science



Scientific Misconduct



The Rise and Fall of Colonial Science



Racial and Gendered Science



Nature / Culture


Notes


Index