----- Original Message ----- From: Una McCormack una@q-research.connectfree.co.uk To: Lysator blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 6:28 PM Subject: Re: Re [B7L] Deliverance - keg marxist take (OT)
science operating successfully under stress; 2. the reliability of
information gained from
ethnographic studies in situations where people are in fear of their lives
if they talk too
freely.
Actually, Fiona, have you seen any literature on the second of those?
Not really my field, but you could try reading an edited volume called "Anthropology under Fire," about anthropologists who do their fieldwork in totalitarian, war-torn or otherwise fraught situations. Also, look for articles by Frank Pieke-- he's a colleague who did his doctoral work on Tianamen Square.
Oh dear, B7 content... Well, I have no doubt that science would get on OK
under the Federation.
I wouldn't hold out much hope for sociology, however.
To judge by the social-Darwinist view of society put forward in "Terminal," I'd say all of the social sciences are pretty much up the creek in the Federation.
Fiona
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