Race Culture And Evolution

Author : George W. Stocking
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226774945
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Culture, and Evolution written by George W. Stocking and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1982-04-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We have, at long last, a real historian with real historical skills and no intra-professional ax to grind. . . . All these pieces show the virtues one finds missing in . . . nearly all of anthropological history work but [Stocking's]: extensive and critical use of archival sources, tracing of real rather than merely plausible intellectual connections, and contextualization of ideas and movements in terms of broader social and cultural currents. Stocking writes very clearly; attacks important topics—race and evolution, the influence of scientism, the interaction between anthropology and other disciplines; and is methodologically very sophisticated. Though his main theme is the development of racialism and of opposition to it, his book bears on a range of issues very much alive in anthropology. . . . I would think no apprentice anthropologist ought to be pronounced a journeyman until he or she has absorbed what Stocking has to say."—Clifford Geertz, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Author : George W. Stocking
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Culture, and Evolution written by George W. Stocking and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Ward Stocking (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Culture, and Evolution written by George Ward Stocking (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George W. Stocking
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
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Download or read book Race culture and evolution written by George W. Stocking and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alex Mesoudi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226520455
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Evolution written by Alex Mesoudi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-07-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian theory can explain human culture. Covering a wide range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, Alex Mesoudi shows that human culture is itself an evolutionary process that exhibits the key Darwinian mechanisms of variation, competition, and inheritance. This cross-disciplinary volume focuses on the ways cultural phenomena can be studied scientifically—from theoretical modeling to lab experiments, archaeological fieldwork to ethnographic studies—and shows how apparently disparate methods can complement one another to the mutual benefit of the various social science disciplines. Along the way, the book reveals how new insights arise from looking at culture from an evolutionary angle. Cultural Evolution provides a thought-provoking argument that Darwinian evolutionary theory can both unify different branches of inquiry and enhance understanding of human behavior.

Author : Stephen Shennan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520255999
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution written by Stephen Shennan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an integrative approach to the application of evolutionary theory in studies of cultural transmission and social evolution and reveals the enormous range of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead to productive empirical research, the touchstone of any worthwhile theoretical perspective. While many recent works on cultural evolution adopt a specific theoretical framework, such as dual inheritance theory or human behavioral ecology, Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution emphasizes empirical analysis and includes authors who employ a range of backgrounds and methods to address aspects of culture from an evolutionary perspective. Editor Stephen Shennan has assembled archaeologists, evolutionary theorists, and ethnographers, whose essays cover a broad range of time periods, localities, cultural groups, and artifacts.

Author : Milford H. Wolpoff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684810131
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and Human Evolution written by Milford H. Wolpoff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Human Evolution shows how the debate over the "Eve" theory reflects a long history of theories about human origins and race that has been fraught with social and political implications.

Author : Janis Faye Hutchinson
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power, Race, and Culture written by Janis Faye Hutchinson and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2005 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines becoming an anthropologist from the perspective of a black female who grew up in the South during the Civil Rights era. It intertwines her childhood experiences and socialization in a segregated South with her academic experiences and training in anthropology to examine race and reace relations in the United States. She specifically looks at the impact of the concept of race on her professional development and provides a modern outlook on diversity. --Publisher.

Author : Thomas W. Maretzki
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824860268
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People and Cultures of Hawaii written by Thomas W. Maretzki and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a significant update to the highly influential text People and Cultures of Hawaii: A Psychocultural Profile. Since its publication in 1980, the immigrant groups it discusses in depth have matured and new ones have been added to the mix. The present work tracks the course of these changes over the past twenty years, constructing a historical understanding of each group as it evolved from race to ethnicity to culture. Individual chapters begin with an overview of one of fifteen groups. Following the development of its unique ethnocultural identity, distinctive character traits such as temperament and emotional expression are explored—as well as ethnic stereotypes. Also discussed are modifications to the group’s ethnocultural identity over time and generational change—which traits may have changed over generations and which are more hardwired or enduring. An important feature of each chapter is the focus on the group’s family social structure, generational and gender roles, power distribution, and central values and life goals. Readers will also find a description of the group’s own internal social class structure, social and political strategies, and occupational and educational patterns. Finally, contributors consider how a particular ethnic group has blended into Hawai‘i’s culturally sensitive society. People and Cultures of Hawai‘i: The Evolution of Culture and Ethnicity will, like its predecessor, fill an important niche in understanding the history of different ethnic groups in Hawai‘i.

Author : Audrey Smedley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429974418
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race in North America written by Audrey Smedley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping work traces the idea of race for more than three centuries to show that 'race' is not a product of science but a cultural invention that has been used variously and opportunistically since the eighteenth century. Updated throughout, the fourth edition of this renowned text includes a compelling new chapter on the health impacts of the racial worldview, as well as a thoroughly rewritten chapter that explores the election of Barack Obama and its implications for the meaning of race in America and the future of our racial ideology.