Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology

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Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology is written by Lawrence A. Kuznar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0759112347 (ISBN 10) and 9780759112346 (ISBN 13).

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 techniques-such as computer modeling systems-that 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.