Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthro…
Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthro…
"The Energy Reader examines the quandary of meeting future energy needs, bringing a critical and practical approach to this complex global challenge and its potentially dire implications. It evaluates the social and cultural components of the energy problem in addition to the te…
Examines the energy problem from an anthropological perspective and looks at energy holistically, including social and cultural components and long term implications for global and social environmental change. From publisher description.
Here are some of the seminal essays on the most important topic we face: how to move from the energy sources that built our civilization to those that might be able to sustain it. They`re fascinating historically, but also of great practical value. Bill McKibben, Author of Eaart…
Examines the energy problem from an anthropological perspective and looks at energy holistically, including social and cultural components and long term implications for global and social environmental change. From publisher description.
Naked Science is about contested domains and includes different science cultures: physics, molecular biology, primatology, immunology, ecology, medical environmental, mathematical and navigational domains. While the volume rests on the assumption that science is not autonomous, …
Naked Science is a collection of essays on different science traditions by pre-eminent scholars in the social sciences. The contributors demystify formal, western science and encourage readers look beyond the perceived boundaries of the subject.
Naked Science is a collection of essays on different science traditions by pre-eminent scholars in the social sciences. The contributors demystify formal, western science and encourage readers look beyond the perceived boundaries of the subject.
