Taking sides. Clashing views in cultural anthropology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dubuque, Iowa :
McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Learning Series,
[2006]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Taking sides.
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Table of Contents:
- Issue 1. Should anthropology stop trying to model itself on the natural sciences?
- Issue 2. Was Margaret Mead's fieldwork on Samoan adolescents fundamentally flawed?
- Issue 3. Should anthropologists abandon the concept of culture?
- Issue 4. Do native peoples today invent their traditions?
- Issue 5. Is Ebonics (Black English) a distinct language from standard English?
- Issue 6. Are San Hunter-Gatherers basically pastoralists who have lost their herds?
- Issues 7. Does the natural-supernatural distinction exist in all cultures?
- Issue 8. Is it natural for adopted children to want to find out about their birth parents?
- Issue 9. Do sexually Egalitarian societies exist?
- Issue 10. Has the Islamic Revolution in Iran subjugated women?
- Issue 11. Are Yanomami violence and warfare natural human efforts to maximize reproductive fitness?
- Issue 12. Is ethnic conflict inevitable?
- Issue 13. Is Islam a single universal tradition?
- Issue 14. Do some illnesses exist only among members of a particular culture?
- Issue 15. Do museums misrepresent ethnic communities around the world?
- Issue 16. Did Napoleon Chagnon and other researchers adversely affect the Yanomami Indians of Venezuela?
- Issue 17. Should anthropologists and linguists be concerned about losing endangered languages?
- Should anthropologists work to eliminate the practice of female circumcision?