[Air-L] anthropology is not a science?

[Denise N. Rall]

Yes Christian, 

I couldn't agree more about the boundary work. But
when I hope that the bridge will stay up, and the
airplane will stay in the sky, I want the scientific
method. That limits the domain of understanding
considerably, but for material processes, I am more
than happy to make the exception.

That doesn't lessen the political burdens, but perhaps
puts a box around it. It's our job as social
scientists to make sure it's not a black one.

Ok, that's me done.

Cheers, Denise

--- Christian Nelson <xianknelson at mac.com> wrote:
> aren't always that useful for describing science,
> often because they  
> are really created to perform political "boundary
> work" that denies  
> some people the scarce resources available to
> "scientists" (whatever  
> they are) by such entities as universities, grant
> agencies, etc.


Denise N. Rall, PhD
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