Jonathan Marks' Why I am NOT a Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009).

"Science is widely accepted to be three different things: a method of understanding and of establishing facts about the universe; the facts themselves, the products of that method; and a voice of authority and consequently a locus of cultural power. This triple identity creates tensions within science and conflicting roles for it." (preface, p. x-xi)

"The biggest obstacle to studying science anthropologically is the choice of whether to universalize it or to particularize it...Is science something that everybody has in their fashion but only certain peoples exercise strongly? Or is science something that only 'we' have? In which case, what do 'they' have?" (preface, p. xi)

Marks contends that "the most reasonable approach is to acknowledge that everyone has knowledge about the world, much of it accurate, which allows them to manipulate their environments in diverse and productive ways. Science, however, is a particular approach to knowledge that is more precisely localized in the cultural history of Europe." (preface, p. xi)