Comments on: A reformer’s science?

By: maniaku

maniaku — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:53:01 +0000

I don’t know how I ended up commenting on such an old thread heh. Sorry! :)

By: maniaku

maniaku — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:40:48 +0000

Actually I guess its more like the inverse of Mead, and in that sense I get your point. I still don’t think it has to do with ‘reforming’/'civilizing’ the ‘Other’/'Primtives’/etc though (here anyways, other places perhaps), but more about using ethnography as mirror to reform ‘our society’. Though, of course, the ‘primitive’/mirror concept was just a construction of Victorian anthropologists, but alas…

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By: maniaku

maniaku — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:33:49 +0000

Eh, I get your point is somewhere else and that the anecodte is a bit rhetorical, but from what I remember of Stocking the point for Tylor was less about ‘civilizing’ the ‘primitives’ (though he did indeed think they were ‘primitives’) and more about eliminating ‘crude old culture’ from the ‘civilized’ people of England. In other words, he wanted to advance Rationalism versus Spiritualism. So, the “reformer’s science” is really more about Victorian society than the colonies, per se. In this sense, “reformer’s science” could arguably be similar to something like Margaret Mead’s famous works… an examination of the ‘Other’ as a critique of your ‘own’ society. This can also be problematic, but I think not necessarily related to a critique of Tylor’s evolutionism…

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By: Arthur Newman

Arthur Newman — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:10:25 +0000

IgNobel: The new inquisition of ultra ortodox scientists

IgNobel represents a new campaign to discredit unusual scientific achievements, which perhaps in the future will be useful for the advance of science.

This new scientific inquisition, a parody of the Nobel Prizes, is
very dangerous. In fact, it is used, in some cases anti-ethically, to attack and ridiculize honest and prestigious scientists who curiously have published
their scientific articles in peer-review scientific journals!!!

My question is:
Should the IgNobel group receive an IgNobel prize?

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