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Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science
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The article was published on 1994-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 718 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Science wars & Intellectual freedom.read more
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Making water security : A morphological account of Nile River development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the morphology of the Nile and its form and structure to better understand how scientists, engineers and water users engage in rearranging the morphology and shape their relative positions vis-a-vis each other and the river.
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The Nature/Culture of Genetic Facts*
TL;DR: It is argued that a principal contribution of anthropology to the study of human heredity lies in the ontology of genetic facts, which have cultural information integrated into them, not layered on them.
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Transcending the “Obnoxious Spectator”: a case for processual pluralism in ethnoarchaeology
TL;DR: The authors argue that the problems that many commentators have recognized with ethnoarchaeology's apparent eclecticism arise from an over-reliance on core universals by both processual and postprocessual researchers.
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Metaphor and Metaphysics
TL;DR: In this paper, the metaphoric structure of experience essences is introduced, and strong philosophical metaphors, which are often expressed in philosophical definition, reveal these metaphoric essences, and they emerge dialectically from practices and institutions in which those concepts are contested.
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Sociology after Humanism: A Lesson from Contemporary Science Studies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare three types of ontological schemes in terms of their internal coherence and their consequences for sociology, and find that the relational ontology provides a consistent basis for sociological explanations of human practices, contrary to the antisociological stance of the actor-network approach.