ISBN10: 0954557220, ISBN13: 9780954557225, [publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing 2003-02-15] Softcover
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]

Paperback / softback. New. A leading social anthropologist examines early 21st-century interests in interdisciplinarity, with particular attention to the conjunction of science and society. (Archaeology) ISBN 0954557220 9780954557225 [GB]

ISBN10: 0954557220, ISBN13: 9780954557225, [publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing] Softcover
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]

ISBN10: 0954557220, ISBN13: 9780954557225, [publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In Commons and Borderlands a leading social anthropologist examines early twenty-firstcentury interests in interdisciplinarity, with particular attention to the conjunction of science and society. Interdisciplinary practice has become well entrenched in any number of scientific disciplines, or disciplines from the humanities or from social science for that matter. This does not deter current rhetoric which sees new opportunities in new combinations of interests. One arresting strand is the promise that in a strong form - transdisciplinarity - 'science' might thereby be brought into 'society'. Marilyn Strathern's questioning of this process addresses the challenge that notions of property ownership pose to the expected flow of knowledge. As is fitting for a consideration of the flow and transformational properties of knowledge, the contents of this collection are knowingly designated 'working papers', left as open, unfinished statements to highlight their future and the work they may still do.Marilyn Strathern is William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.ContentsPreface; Introduction - In crisis mode : a comment on interculturality; Chapter One - Knowledge on its travels: Dispersal and divergence in the make-up of communities; Chapter Two - Commons and ...