Taking sides : clashing views on educational issues / James Wm. Noll [ed.]
Material type: TextPublication details: USA: McGraw-Hill, 2008Edition: 14th edDescription: xxii, 456 p. : 24 cmISBN:- 9780073515229
- 0073515221
- Clashing views in anthropology
- Anthropology
- LC 65 N65 2008
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Books | Education Library Collection General Collection | Non-fiction | LC 65. N65 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1-1 | Available | 8758 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issue 1. Is race a useful concept for anthropologists? -- Issue 2. Are humans inherently violent? -- Issue 3. Was there a pre-Clovis migration to the New World from Europe? -- Issue 4. Was the extinction of pleistocene megafauna in North America caused by climate change rather than over-hunting? -- Issue 5. Did prehistoric Native Americans practice cannabalism in the American Southwest? -- Issue 6. Can apes learn language? -- Issue 7. Should anthropologists and linguists be concerned about losing endangered languages? -- Issue 8. Should cultural anthropology stop trying to model itself on sciences? -- Issue 9. Was Margaret Mead's fieldwork on Samoan adolescents fundamentally flawed? -- Issue 10. Do native peoples today invent their traditions? -- Issue 11. Do men dominate women in all societies? -- Issue 12. Is gay marriage natural? -- Issue 13. Does the natural-supernatural distinction exist in all cutlures? -- Issue 14. Are San hunter-gatherers basically pastoralists who lost their herds? -- Issue 15. Do some illnesses exist only among members of a particular culture? -- Issue 16. Is ethnic conflict inevitable? -- Issue 17. Should the remains of prehistoric Native Americans be reburied rather than studied? -- Issue 18. Did Napoleon Chagnon's research methods and publications harm the Yanomami Indians? -- Issue 19. Do museums misrepresent ethnic communities around the world?
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