Full Description
A strong advocate for anthropology as a science, Lawrence Kuznar reviews the recent challenges to this ideology from creationists and 'scientific' racists on one side and postmodernists, marxists and feminists on the other. Moreover, Kuznar provides a brief review of anthropology as a science, summarizes major theoretical works in anthropology and other fields on the science/humanism debate, and offers several important case examples from cultural anthropology and archaeology showing science in action. An interesting, provocative book for anthropologists and ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate classes in theory and method.
Contents
Chapter 1 1. Introduction Chapter 2 2. Anthropological Science Chapter 3 3. Science: problems with Progress Chapter 4 4. Anthropological Science: Two Examples Part 5 II Chapter 6 5. Traditionalist Critiques of Anthropological Science Chapter 7 6. The Postmodern Vanguard: Non-Traditional Critics of Science Chapter 8 7. Elevating the Other Chapter 9 8. The Mutable Past: Postmodern Archaeology Part 10 III Chapter 11 9. Strange Bedfellows: Comparison of Challenges to Scientific Anthropology Chapter 12 10. Crusading Anthropology: The Case Against Chapter 13 11. Where Do We Go from Here? Chapter 14 References
