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Complexities: Beyond Nature & Nurture Hardcover - 2005
by Susan McKinnon (Editor); Sydel Silverman (Editor)
From the rear cover
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.Details
- Title Complexities: Beyond Nature & Nurture
- Author Susan McKinnon (Editor); Sydel Silverman (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 330
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date June 1, 2005
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780226500232 / 0226500233
- Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.42 x 0.94 in (23.67 x 16.31 x 2.39 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Physical anthropology, Anthropological linguistics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004020978
- Dewey Decimal Code 301