Cultures without culturalism the making of scientific knowledge
Cultural accounts of scientific ideas and practices have increasingly come to be welcomed as a corrective to previous—and still widely held—theories of scientific knowledge and practices as universal. The editors caution, however, against the temptation to overgeneralize the work of culture, and to...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham ; London
Duke University Press
2017, ©2017
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 On Invoking “Culture” in the Analysis of Behavior in Financial Markets
- 2 Cultural Difference and Sameness
- 3 The Cultural Politics of an African AIDS Vaccine
- 4 Worrying about Essentialism
- 5 Hybrid Devices
- 6 Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors
- 7 Modes of Exchange
- 8 Styles in Mathematical Practice
- 9 Historicizing Culture
- 10 From Quarry to Paper
- 11 Cultures of Experimentation
- 12 The People’s War against Earthquakes
- 13 E Uno Plures?
- 14 Changing Mathematical Cultures, Conceptual History, and the Circulation of Knowledge
- Contributors
- Index