"Rice positivists" vs. "contextualized popular epistemologies"
In discussing yesterday's post on the American Anthropological Association's removal of (the word) science from its long-range plan, several commenters were puzzled or skeptical about the foundations of the debate. One wrote:
The depiction of the different sides – both in the NYT article, the earlier Higher Ed article, and by many of the proponents – strike me as utter nonsense. Despite working in the field, I've yet to meet one of these anti-science cultural anthropologists.
And another wrote:
I can't quite grasp an academic yet non-scientific way to study these things.
It may help to recognize that the "anti-science cultural anthropologists" have traditionally framed their views as an opposition to "positivism".
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