Science in the forest, science in the past

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Science in the forest, science in the past

edited by Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça

HAU Books, c2020

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"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."--Pref

"Originally published as a special issue of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 9 (1): 36-182"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

  • 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

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