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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 never suggests Haraway’s historiographical method is particularly effective in any context. We get no discussion about whether her approach is more effective in connection with social issues compared to other issues.

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Although we’re told the approach is “familiar in historiographical theorizing,” we don’t know that it’s commonly applied in many disciplines. There’s a difference between being familiar with the approach and actually using the approach.

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The author never compares the effectiveness of Haraway’s approach to traditional approaches.

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Not supported, because although we know it has rarely been put into practice by “historians of science,” this doesn’t imply that it’s rarely been used by historians that emphasize causal arguments. Maybe there are many historians — not of science, but of other fields — that use causal arguments and apply Haraway’s approach.

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Supported, because we’re told Haraway’s approach “has rarely been put into practice by historians of science.”

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