[Air-L] anthropology is not a science?
Charles Ess
charles.ess at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 19:12:58 PST 2008
> I just wanna point out that I was not taking a position on whether
> anthropology is a SOCIAL science or not. Just that the original poster was
> claiming scientific evidence, in a way that implied it was from the biological
> / 'hard' sciences, and that I would like to see said evidence.
>
> Respect to anthropology, and respect to people researching TEK and
> sustainability (one of my personal passions, I might add) - let's just avoid
> making claims about human nature that label a whole group of people as less
> than human.
Both points well taken, of course!
And isn't it interesting to see what sort of discussion has unfolded from
all of this?
Many thanks, all!
- charles ess
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