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Informationen zum Autor Hilary Callan was Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 2000 to 2010, and is a member of the Institute's Education Committee. Brian Street (1943-2017) was Emeritus Professor of Language in Education at King’s College, London University and Visiting Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. He was a former Vice-President of the RAI and Chair of the Institute's Education Committee. Simon Underdown is Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, a Vice President of the Royal Anthropological Institute and is a member of the Institute's Education Committee. Klappentext Anthropology seeks to understand the roots of our common humanity, the diversity of cultures and world-views, and the organisation of social relations and practices. As a method of inquiry it embraces an enormous range of topics, and as a discipline it covers a multitude of fields and themes, as shown in this selection of original writings. As an accessible entry point, for upper-level students and first year undergraduates new to the study of anthropology, this reader also offers guidance for teachers in exploring the subject's riches with their students. That anthropology is an immensely expansive inquiry of study is demonstrated by the diversity of its topics - from nature conservation campaigns to witchcraft beliefs, from human evolution to fashion and style, and from the repatriation of indigenous human remains to research on literacy. There is no single 'story of anthropology'. Taken together, these fundamental readings are evidence of a contemporary, vibrant subject that has much to tell us about all the worlds in which we live. Zusammenfassung Published by Berghahn Books in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute Anthropology seeks to understand human social behaviour and how societies are formed. As a method of inquiry it embraces an enormous range of topics! and as a discipline it covers a multitude of fields and themes! as shown in this selection of original writings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements A Note on Original Sources General Introduction Hilary Callan, Brian Street and Simon Underdown Section I: Being Human: Unity and Diversity Introduction to Section I Hilary Callan, Brian Street and Simon Underdown I.1 Evolutionary Processes and Human Origins Chapter 1. What Is Natural Selection? R. Lewin and R. Foley Chapter 2. Explaining the Very Improbable Richard Dawkins Chapter 3. What Is Sexual Selection? R. Lewin and R. Foley Chapter 4. Human Evoluton: An Overview Simon Underdown Chapter 5. Were the Neanderthals So Different from Us? Chris Stringer Chapter 6. An Evolving Tale Simon Underdown I.2 The Body Ways of Thinking about 'Race' and Ethnicity Chapter 7. Race against Time Simon Underdown Chapter 8. Dem Bones Simon Underdown Chapter 9. Representations of Non-European Society in Popular Fiction Brian Street Chapter 10. Unravelling 'Race' for the Twenty-first Century Faye V. Harrison A Source of Meanings and a Site of Social Discipline and Control Chapter 11. The Body: Subjugated and Unsexed Judith Okely I.3 Ways of Thinking and Communicating Language Evolution Chapter 12. How Humans are Different Robin Dunbar Chapter 13. Technical Difficulties and Hopeful Monsters Terrence Deacon Language and Classification Chapter 14. The 'Savage' Mind Claude Lévi-Strauss Explanation of Events Chapter 15. Witchcraft Beliefs Godfrey Lienhardt The Ethno...
