Anthropology and science : epistemologies in practice / edited by Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade - Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007 - ix, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - A.S.A. monographs ; 43 . - A.S.A. monographs ; 43 .

Includes bibliographical references and index

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 Corsín Jiménez -- 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

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Anthropology--Philosophy
Science--Philosophy
Science--Social aspects
Science and civilization