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clashing views on controversial issues in anthropology
This debate style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in anthropology. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading anthropologists and researchers, reflect a variety of viewpoints and have been selected for their liveliness and substance and because of their value in a debate framework. This new title will be a beneficial tool to encourage critical thinking on important anthropological issues.
Did Homo Sapiens originate only in Africa? -- Did Neanderthals interbreed with modern humans? -- Are humans inherently violent? -- Did people first arrive in the new world after the last Ice Age? -- Was there a goddess cult in prehistoric Europe? -- Were environmental factors responsible for the Mayan collapse? -- Can apes learn language? -- Does language determine how we think? -- Should cultural anthropology model itself on the natural sciences? -- Are San hunter-gatherers basically pastoralists who have lost their herds? -- Do sexually egalitarian societies exist? -- Is it natural for adopted children to want to find out about their birth parents? -- Has the Islamic revolution in Iran subjugated women? -- Should the remains of prehistoric Native Americans be reburied rather than studied? -- Should anthropologists work to eliminate the practice of female circumcision? -- Did Napoleon Chagnon and other researchers harm the Yanomami Indians of Venezuela? -- Do museums misrepresent ethnic communities around the world?.
selected, edited, and with introductions by Kirk M. Endicott and Robert L. Welsch.
Includes bibliographical references and index.