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Complexities
beyond nature & nurture
edited by Susan McKinnon & Sydel Silverman.
Published
2005
by
University of Chicago Press
in
Chicago
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Written in English.
About the Book
"Recent Years Have Seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms, and to dismiss cultural meaning and difference. Daily we read assertions that everything from disease to morality - not to mention the presumed characteristics of race, gender, and sexuality - can be explained by reference primarily to genetics and our evolutionary past." "Complexities mobilizes experts from several fields of anthropology - cultural, archaeological, linguistic, and biological - to offer a compelling challenge to the resurgence of reductive theories of human biological and social life. This book presents evidence to contest such theories and to provide a multifaceted account of the complexity and variability of the human condition. Charting a course that moves beyond any simple opposition between nature and nurture, Complexities argues that a nonreductive perspective has important implications for how we understand and foster human potential. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
Table of Contents
| Introduction / Susan McKinnon and Sydel Silverman | ||
| Epigenesis, brain plasticity, and behavioral versatility : alternatives to standard evolutionary psychology models / Kathleen R. Gibson | ||
| Do humans have innate mental structures? : some arguments from linguistics / William A. Foley | ||
| The eye of the beholder : how linguistic categorization affects "natural" experience / Eve Danziger | ||
| Reassessing male aggression and dominance : the evidence from primatology / Katherine C. MacKinnon and AgustÃn Fuentes | ||
| On kinship and marriage : a critique of the genetic and gender calculus of evolutionary psychology / Susan McKinnon | ||
| Surveying a cultural "waistland" : some biological poetics and politics of the female body / Mary Orgel, Jacqueline Urla, and Alan Swedlund | ||
| Denaturalizing gender in prehistory / Lynn Meskell | ||
| Context and complexity in human biological research / Thomas Leatherman and Alan Goodman | ||
| Alzheimer's disease : a tangled concept / Margaret Lock | ||
| The molecular revolution in medicine : promise, reality, and social organization / Karen-Sue Taussig | ||
| Barbarism, old and new : denaturalizing the rhetoric of warfare / Mary H. Moran | ||
| Language standardization and the complexities of communicative practice / John J. Gumperz and Jenny Cook-Gumperz | ||
| Blood and belonging : long-distance nationalism and the world beyond / Nina Glick Schiller. |
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Classifications
Library of Congress |
GN27 .C648 2005 |
The Physical Object
Pagination |
ix, 330 p. : |
Number of pages |
330 |
ID Numbers
Open Library |
OL15622433M |
ISBN 10 |
0226500241, 0226500233 |
ISBN 13 |
9780226500249, 9780226500232 |
LC Control Number |
2004020978 |
OCLC/WorldCat |
58050736 |
Goodreads |
1105383
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History Created September 20, 2008 · 4 revisions
| April 24, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs. |
| April 16, 2010 | Edited by bgimpertBot | Added goodreads ID. |
| April 28, 2009 | Edited by ImportBot | add OCLC number |
| September 20, 2008 | Created by ImportBot | Initial record created, from Western Washington University MARC record. |