UBC : IS+H : Lecture 18 : Pascal Boyer
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Pascal Boyer, "Three styles of inquiry in the study of culture. Explaining the current dismal state of cultural anthropology" :
How does the community of social scientists actually decide that a certain research programme counts as a contributions…
Pascal Boyer, "Three styles of inquiry in the study of culture. Explaining the current dismal state of cultural anthropology" :
How does the community of social scientists actually decide that a certain research programme counts as a contributions to social science? On what criteria? The opposition between "scientific" and "non·scientific" modes, or perhaps "humanities" vs. "science" is too simple, and there are in fact three clearly distinct ideal types here. I call them ideal-types because I do not want to suggest that any discipline or field is organized exclusively around all of these possible modes of transmission, although in many fields one of them is clearly dominant. I will call these three modes science, erudition and relevant connections respectively. In what follows I will try briefly to describe these three modes before applying this model to the specific case of kinship in anthropology.
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