epistemologies in practice Edwards, Jeanette Harvey, Penelope Wade, Peter text bibliography enk Oxford New York Berg 2007 monographic eng

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ix, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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 specialized edited by Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade Includes bibliographical references and index Anthropology Philosophy Science Philosophy Science Social aspects Science and civilization 9781845204990 (cloth) 1845204999 (cloth) 9781845205003 (pbk.) 1845205006 (pbk.) http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2006038416-t.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2006038416-t.html UMP 090707 20251117145438.0 vtls000039627