Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Anthropology News essays on science
Anthropology News has a series of essays on science up on its website. My contribution is titled Illustrating Science Through Language. My essay argues that the scientific method can be applied to cultural artifacts and is not limited to quantitative analysis. The essay is essentially a lesson plan that introduces the concepts of data, evidence, contrast, objectivity, hypothesis, falsification, and theory through the analysis of a small piece of language. By acting as the data-collectors, students play a key role in working through this exercise and also begin to develop an idea of what linguistic fieldwork is like.
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