Anthropology and the World of Science (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Jennings, Jesse D. (1909-1997)

Publisher: Extension Division, University of Utah

Pub Date: 1963

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Stapled binding tight, but staples beginning to rust.  No tears.  Previous owner’s name on upper front cover corner.  Upper spine edge slightly bent (see photo).  Foxing to lower front cover edge.  Rear cover sun-faded, with bookend mark on cover.

Notes: Pamphlet.  Bulletin of the University of Utah, Volume 54, Number 18, February 4, 1963.  Twenty-seventh Annual Frederic William Reynolds Lecture.  “At the beginning, I tried to explain that anthropology as a career is exciting.  I drew examples from my own experiences.  Then I reviewed in a passage, far too brief, the nature of science.  I did this in order to expose some of the points where the values of the world of science diverge from those of day-to day life.  The places where I saw communication to be poor between scientific knowledge and common sense were in the transient nature of truth the background role of science, and the neutrality of factual data.”  (page 17).    Jennings spoke/wrote of his experiences in excavating Danger Cave, and work on the Glen Canyon Project as part of the lecture.  Illustrated with photographs.  From the library of the late archaeologist John Otis Brew, his signature on cover.  VERY RARE.  No copies available for sale.