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Taking sides.
- Title
- Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial issues in anthropology / selected, edited, and with introductions by Kirk M. Endicott and Robert L. Welsch.
- Publication
- Dubuque, IA : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- xxvi, 400 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Alternative Title
- Clashing views on controversial issues in anthropology
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Is race a useful concept for anthropologists? -- Are humans inherently violent? -- Did Neanderthals interbreed with modern humans? -- Did people first arrive in the new world after the last ice age? -- Was there a goddess cult in prehistoric Europe? -- Did prehistoric Native Americans practice cannibalism in the American Southwest? -- Can apes learn language? -- Does language determine how we think? -- Should cultural anthropology model itself on the natural sciences? -- Was Margaret Mead's fieldwork on Samoan adolescents fundamentally flawed? -- Do native peoples today invent their traditions? -- Is it natural for adopted children to want to find out about their birth parents? -- Are San hunter-gatherers basically pastoralists who have lost their herds? -- Do some illnesses exist only among members of a particular culture? -- Is ethnic conflict inevitable? -- Should the remains of prehistoric Native Americans be reburied rather than studied? -- Did Napoleon Chagnon's research methods and publications harm the Yanomami Indians? -- Do museums misrepresent ethnic communities around the world?
- ISBN
- 0073102024
- 9780073102023
- OCLC
- ocm57470048
- 57470048
- SCSB-5724949
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries