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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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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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This is the best answer. The author notes that primatology is a particularly appropriate field for discussing the “Western” construction of nature, because primates seem so similar to humans that it allows scientists to project their own beliefs about nature and culture onto them. Although the author doesn’t explicitly state that Haraway has the same perspective about primatology as the author, it’s reasonable to think Haraway may have chosen to write a book involving primatology in part for similar reasons. She might think that primatologists are more likely to project their own beliefs about nature and culture onto the animals they study than are other scientists. (If you’re expecting the correct answer to have more support...sorry, sometimes you have to pick the best available answer. This is the best supported answer out of the five we’re given.)

71%

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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.

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