Messy. Clumsy. Volatile. Exciting. These words are not often associated with the sciences, which for most people still connote exactitude, elegance, reliability, and a rather plodding certainty. But the real story is something quite different. The sciences are less about the ability to know and to control than they are about the unleashing of new forces, new capacities for changing the world. The sciences as practiced exist not in some pristine world of "objectivity," but in what Mike Fortun and Herb Bernstein call "the muddled middle." This book explores the way science makes sense of the...
Messy. Clumsy. Volatile. Exciting. These words are not often associated with the sciences, which for most people still connote exactitude, elegance, r...
Cultural anthropology studies human society - from tribal to complex modern societies. Throughout its history, cultural anthropology has involved diverse approaches to the broad range of human cultural expression. The actions and interactions of humans are of interest to Cultural Anthropologists, who in their discipline try to understand what it means to be "human." This major work gives an authoritative overview of Cultural Anthropology in four volumes.
Cultural anthropology studies human society - from tribal to complex modern societies. Throughout its history, cultural anthropology has involved d...
