Naked science : anthropological inquiry into boundaries, power, and knowledge / edited by Laura Nader.
| Other author | Nader, Laura. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 1996. |
| Description | xvi, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : anthropological inquiry into boundaries, power, and knowledge / Laura Nader -- Navigation in the Western Carolines : a traditional science / Ward H. Goodenough -- The scientific basis of gastrointestinal herbal medicine among the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico / E.A. Berlin ... [et al.] -- Science for the West, myth for the rest? : the case of James Bay Cree knowledge construction / Colin Scott -- The savagery of the domestic mind / Jean Lave -- Scientific literacy, what it is, why it's important, and why scientists think we don't have it : the case of immunology and the immune system / Bjorn Claeson ... [et al.] -- The prism of heritability and the sociology of knowledge / Troy Duster -- Nuclear weapons testing : scientific experiment as political ritual / Hugh Gusterson -- Political structuring of the institutions of science / Charles Schwartz -- Constructing knowledge across social worlds : the case of DNA sequence databases in molecular biology / Joan H. Fujimura and Michael Fortun -- Kokusaika, Gaiatsu, and Bachigai : Japanese physicists' strategies for moving into the international political economy of science / Sharon Traweek --Public policy, sciencing, and managing the future / M. Estellie Smith -- Inuit indigenous knowledge and science in the Arctic / Ellen Bielawski -- Popular delusions and scientific models : conflicting beliefs of scientists and nonscientist administrators in the creation of a secret nuclear surveillance system / David Jacobson and Charles A. Ziegler -- Japanese science and western hegemonies : primatology and the limits set to questions / Pamela J. Asquith -- The three-cornered constellation : magic, science, and religion revisited / Laura Nader. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-303) and index. |
| LCCN | 95023650 |
| ISBN | 0415914647 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0415914655 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |