Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology

(Paperback, Second Edition)

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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 techniquessuch as computer modeling systemsthat 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.

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Praise for the previous edition: What makes this book so useful for students and teachers of undergraduate and graduate classes on anthropological researchis that it is a careful, reasoned attempt to put something back, after the certainties have beenremoved from under students' feet.... * Critique Of Anthropology *

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What makes this book so useful for students and teachers of undergraduate and graduate classes on anthropological researchis that it is a careful, reasoned attempt to put something back, after the certainties have been removed from under students' feet.

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Lawrence A. Kuznar is professor of anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne.