Self-study
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Donna Haraway's Primate Visions is the most ambitious book on the history of science yet written from a feminist perspective, embracing not only the scientific construction of gender but also the interplay of race, class, and colonial and postcolonial culture with the "Western" construction of the very concept of nature itself. ███████████ ██ █ ████████████ ███ ███████ ███ ████ ██████ ███████ ████████ ████ ██ ████ ████ █████████ ████ ████ ███████ █████ ████████ ███ ███████████ █████████ ███ ███████████ ███████████ ██ █████ ███████ █████ ██████ ███ ████████
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.
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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.
Passage Style
Single position
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Not supported. We have no reason to think Haraway believes properly trained scientists will “all” record similar observations. Maybe they’re looking at different parts of nature? Maybe they’re interested in different things and this leads to different kinds of observations?
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Not supported, because the author never suggests that Haraway believes primatologists make more accurate observations than scientists studying other animals. Although the author notes that primatology allows scientist to project their own beliefs about nature and culture, this doesn’t suggest primatologists would be more accurate in their observations.
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Not supported, because the author never suggests that Haraway believes primatologists make more accurate observations than scientists studying other animals. Although the author notes that primatology allows scientist to project their own beliefs about nature and culture, this doesn’t suggest primatologists would be more accurate in their observations.
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This is the best answer. The author notes that primatology is
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Not supported, because we have no reason to think the passive vs. active posture wouldn’t affect a scientist’s observations.