PrepTest 115 - Section 1 - Passage 3 - Question 18

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Intro topic · Haraway's book, Primate Visions

Book on history of science written from a feminist perspective. Deals with gender, race, class, colonial stuff, and "Western" concept of nature. Book involves primatology, which the author thinks is a good subject for studying beliefs about nature and culture.

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Important feature of book · Challenges traditional separation between people and nature/history

Haraway's approach recognizes that nature participates in humans' creation of knowledge about nature. In other words, nature isn't just something subject to human control.

Additional important feature · There are only multiple, interlinked, partial realities

There isn't just one coherent reality or truth.

Haraway's style · Fragmented approach to historiography that reflects the idea of multiple perspectives

This approach is different from traditional history books, which focus on narrative or on narrative with an emphasis on causation.

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Haraway's content · Mixes in broad cultural issues

She discusses science fiction, movies, TV, and comments on stuff like nuclear war. This approach ignores the distinction between things that are part of science and things that aren't.

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The author tells us that traditional history is either “strictly narrative” or “narrative with emphasis on a causal argument.” In addition, the author contrasts traditional history with Haraway’s fragmented approach. This suggests traditional history wouldn’t be fragmented; it will involve a cohesive narrative.

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The answer presents the closest thing to a coherent narrative involving causation (circumstances that led to her discovery of radium). So it’s the best example of “traditional history.”

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“Dramatization” suggests exaggeration, which we have no reason to think is part of “traditional history.” Also, we have no reason to think “traditional history” involves predictions about the future.

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A series of conversations doesn’t sound like a narrative of events.

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An editorial detailing the benefits of a project doesn’t sound like a narrative of events.

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Detailed math notes doesn’t sound like a narrative of events.

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