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An edition of Complexities (2005)

Complexities

beyond nature & nurture

by and

"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

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University of Chicago Press
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English
Pages
330

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Anthropology, Anthropological linguistics, Physical anthropology, Prehistoric Anthropology, Nature and nurture, Evolution, Anthropology [MESH], Anthropology, Physical [MESH], Linguistics [MESH]
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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 Agustín 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.

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Chicago

Classifications

Library of Congress
GN27 .C648 2005, GN27.C648 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 330 p. :
Number of pages
330

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL15622433M
Internet Archive
complexitiesbeyo0000unse
ISBN 10
0226500241, 0226500233
ISBN 13
9780226500249, 9780226500232
LCCN
2004020978
OCLC/WorldCat
58050736
Goodreads
1105383

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OL18457010W

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