Science in the forest, science in the past / edited by Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça.
| Other author | Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- |
| Other author | Vilaça, Aparecida, 1958- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago : HAU Books, [2020] |
| Description | xii, 278 pages ; illustrations : 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface / Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça -- The Clash of Ontologies and the Problems of Translation and Mutual Intelligibility / Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd -- Inventing Nature: Christianity and Science in Indigenous Amazonia / Aparecida Vilaça -- A Clash of Ontologies? Time, Law, and Science in Papua New Guinea / Marilyn Strathern -- Mathematical Traditions in Ancient Greece and Rome / Serafina Cuomo -- Is there Mathematics in the Forest? / Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida -- Different Clusters of Texts from Ancient China, Different Mathematical Ontologies / Karine Chemla -- Shedding Light on Diverse Cultures of Mathematical Practices in South Asia: Early Sanskrit Mathematical Texts in Conversation with Modern Elementary Tamil Mathematical Curricula (in Dialogue with Senthil Babu) / Agathe Keller -- Antidomestication in the Amazon: Swidden and its Foes / Manuela Carneiro da Cunha -- Objective Functions: (In)humanity and Inequity in Artificial Intelligence / Alan Blackwell -- Modeling, Ontology, and Wild Thought: Toward an Anthropology of the Artificially Intelligent / Willard McCarty -- Rhetorical Antinomies and Radical Othering: Recent Reflections on Responses to an Old Paper Concerning Human-Animal Relations in Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones -- Turning to Ontology in Studies of Distant Sciences / Nicholas Jardine -- Epilogue: The Way Ahead / Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça. |
| Abstract | "This collection brings together leading anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and artificial-intelligence researchers to discuss the sciences and mathematics used in various Eastern, Western, and Indigenous societies, both ancient and contemporary. The authors analyze prevailing assumptions about these societies and propose more faithful, sensitive analyses of their ontological views about reality--a step toward mutual understanding and translatability across cultures and research fields. Science in the Forest, Science in the Past is a pioneering interdisciplinary exploration that will challenge the way readers interested in sciences, mathematics, humanities, social research, computer sciences, and education think about deeply held notions of what constitutes reality, how it is apprehended, and how to investigate it."-- Back cover. |
| General note | "The present volume stems from a workshop that the editors organized at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge from May 31 to June 2, 2017."--Preface. |
| General note | Originally published as a special issue of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 9 (1): 36-182. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020950467 |
| ISBN | 9781912808410 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1912808412 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
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