List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge

Laura Nader

Part I: Discovering Science

1 Navigation in the Western Carolines: A Traditional Science

Ward H. Goodenough

2 The Scientific Basis of Gastrointestinal Herbal Medicine among the Highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico

E. A. Berlin

B. Berlin

X. Lozoya

M. Meckes

J. Tortoriello

M. L. Villarreal

3 Science for the West, Myth for the Rest? The Case of James Bay Cree Knowledge Construction

Colin Scott

4 The Savagery of the Domestic Mind

Jean Lave

5 Scientific Literacy, What It Is, Why It's Important, and Why Scientists Think We Don't Have It: The Case of Immunology and the Immune System

Bjorn Claeson

Emily Martin

Wendy Richardson

Monica Schoch-Spana

Karen-Sue Taussig

Part II: Culture, Power, and Context

6 The Prism of Heritability and the Sociology of Knowledge

Troy Duster

7 Nuclear Weapons Testing: Scientific Experiment as Political Ritual

Hugh Gusterson

8 Political Structuring of the Institutions of Science

Charles Schwartz

9 Constructing Knowledge across Social Worlds: The Case of DNA Sequence Databases in Molecular Biology

Joan H. Fujimura

Michael Fortun

10 Kokusaika, Gaiatsu, and Bachigai: Japanese Physicists' Strategies for Moving into the International Political Economy of Science

Sharon Traweek

Part III: Conflicting Knowledge Systems

11 Public Policy, Sciencing, and Managing the Future

M. Estellie Smith

12 Inuit Indigenous Knowledge and Science in the Arctic

Ellen Bielawski

13 Popular Delusions and Scientific Models: Conflicting Beliefs of Scientists and Nonscientist Administrators in the Creation of a Secret Nuclear Surveillance System

David Jacobson

Charles A. Ziegler

14 Japanese Science and Western Hegemonies: Primatology and the Limits Set to Questions

Pamela J. Asquith

Epilogue

15 The Three-Cornered Constellation: Magic, Science, and Religion Revisited

Laura Nader

Bibliography

Contributors

Index