Category:Anthropology of Science

Spurred in part by Laura Nader’s call, in 1972, to “study up,” the 1980s and 1990s saw the explosion of a whole new field of research that treated scientists as cultural creatures. The early leading figures in this literature were Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway, who used ethnographic and historical methods to show how scientists created knowledge that we come to think of as truthful.