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  1. (1 other version)The Moral Authority of Nature.Lorraine Daston & Fernando Vidal (eds.) - 2003 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify. _The Moral Authority of Nature_ offers a wide-ranging account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful, just, or valuable. The eighteen essays cover a diverse array of topics, including the connection of (...)
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  • History in the Gene: Negotiations Between Molecular and Organismal Anthropology.Marianne Sommer - 2008 - Journal of the History of Biology 41 (3):473-528.
    In the advertising discourse of human genetic database projects, of genetic ancestry tracing companies, and in popular books on anthropological genetics, what I refer to as the anthropological gene and genome appear as documents of human history, by far surpassing the written record and oral history in scope and accuracy as archives of our past. How did macromolecules become "documents of human evolutionary history"? Historically, molecular anthropology, a term introduced by Emile Zuckerkandl in 1962 to characterize the study of primate (...)
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  • Colonialist Photography: Imag(in)ing Race and Place.Eleanor M. Hight & Gary David Sampson - 2002 - Psychology Press.
    Colonialist Photography is an absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and European and American colonialism. Packed with well over a hundred images, these captivating pictures range from the first experiments with photography as a documentary medium, up to the decolonisation of many regions after the Second World War. Reinforcing a broad range of Western assumptions and prejudices, such images often assisted in the construction of a colonial culture. In these thirteen essays, Colonialist Photography considers: * (...)
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  • Picturing the Prehistoric.Stephanie Moser - 1993 - Metascience 4:58-67.
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  • Telling, Showing, Showing off.Mieke Bal - 1992 - Critical Inquiry 18 (3):556-594.
    The American Museum of Natural History is monumental not only in its architecture and design but also in its size, scope, and content. This monumental quality suggests in and of itself the primary meaning of the museum inherited from its history: comprehensive collecting as a form of domination.8 In this respect museums belong to an era of scientific and colonial ambition, from the Renaissance through the early twentieth century, with its climactic moment in the second half of the nineteenth century. (...)
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  • (1 other version)The moral authority of nature.Lorraine Daston & Fernando Vidal (eds.) - 2004 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify. The Moral Authority of Nature offers a wide-ranging account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful, just, or valuable. The eighteen essays cover a diverse array of topics, including the connection of (...)
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  • Trust in numbers: the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life.Theodore M. Porter - 1995 - Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
    What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and (...)
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  • Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science.Donna J. Haraway - 1990 - Journal of the History of Biology 23 (2):329-333.
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  • (1 other version)The Mismeasure of Man.Stephen Jay Gould - 1983 - Ethics 94 (1):153-155.
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  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.Edward Tufte - 2016 - In Jan Wöpking, Christoph Ernst & Birgit Schneider (eds.), Diagrammatik-Reader: Grundlegende Texte Aus Theorie Und Geschichte. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 219-230.
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  • Women in Human Evolution.Lori D. Hager (ed.) - 1997 - Routledge.
    This history of the feminist critique of science, is of profound significance and will be of interest to all those who work in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, and human biology.This volume, the first of it's kind, examines the role of women paleontologists and archaeologists in a field traditionally dominated by men. Women researchers in this field, have questioned many of the assumptions and developmental scenarios advanced by male scientists. As a result of such efforts, women have forged a (...)
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  • Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition.George W. Stocking - 1996 - University of Wisconsin Press.
    Franz Boas, the major founding figure of anthropology as a discipline in the United States, came to America from Germany in 1886. This volume in the highly acclaimed History of Anthropology series is the first extensive scholarly exploration of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late nineteenth-century German anthropology, and offers a new perspective on the historical development of ethnography in the United States.
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  • Essay Review: When Evolution Became Conversation: Vestiges of Creation, Its Readers, and Its Respondents in Victorian Britain. [REVIEW]James A. Secord & John M. Lynch - 2001 - Journal of the History of Biology 34 (3):565-579.
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  • Book reviews-darwinism and the linguistic image: Language, race and natural theology in the nineteenth century.Stephen J. Alter & Uwe Hossfeld - 1999 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 21 (2):236-236.
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  • Seriality in the Making: The Osborn-Knight Restorations of Evolutionary History.Marianne Sommer - 2010 - History of Science 48 (3-4):461-482.
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  • Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited.[author unknown] - 2014
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  • Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500–1870.Staffan Müller-Wille & Hans-jörg Rheinberger - 2008 - Journal of the History of Biology 41 (3):582-585.
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  • (1 other version)Representation in Scientific Practice.Ronald N. Giere, Michael Lynch & Steve Woolgar - 1994 - Biology and Philosophy 9 (1):113-120.
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