ISBN:
1-8452-0499-9
,
978-1-8452-0499-0
,
978-1-8452-0500-3 /Pbk.
,
1-8452-0500-6 /Pbk.
ISSN:
0066-9679
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 208 Seiten
Series Statement:
ASA Monographs 43
Keywords:
Anthropologie Naturwissenschaft
;
Wissenschaft
;
Epistemologie
;
Wissen
Description / Table of Contents:
Notes on contributors -- Introduction: epistemologies in practice / Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade -- Astrophysics, anthropology, and other imperial pursuits / Simon Schaffer -- Industry going public : rethinking knowledge and administration / Alberto Corsi´n Jime´nez -- Rationality and contingency : rhetoric, practice and legitimation in Almaty, Kazakhstan / Catherine Alexander -- Information society Finnish-style, or an anthropological view of the modern / Eeva Berglund -- Nga rakau a te pakeha : reconsidering Maori anthropology / Amiria Henare -- The second nuclear age / Hugh Gusterson -- Genealogical hybridities : the making and unmaking of blood relatives and predictive knowledge in breast cancer genetics / Sahra Gibbon -- Where do we find our monsters? / Debbora Battaglia -- Echolocation in Bolivip / Tony Crook -- Being human in a dualistically-conceived embodied world : Descartes' dualism and Sakais' universalist concepts of (altered) consciousness, inner-knowledge and self / Nathan Porath - Index
Note:
Papers presented at the Fifth Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists, Manchester University, 14th - 18th July, 2003.
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