Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology

Lawrence A. Kuznar

• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Year: 2008
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9780759112346
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Table of Figures
• Preface and Acknowledgments - First Edition
• Preface and Acknowledgments - Second Edition
• Introduction
• Part I - SCIENCE IN ANTHROPOLOGY
• Part II - CRITIQUES OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE
• Part III - ANALYSIS OF THE DEBATE
• References
• Index
• About the Author