Holistic Anthropology : : Emergence and Convergence /

Holistic Anthropology : : Emergence and Convergence / / ed. by David Parkin, Stanley Ulijaszek.

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Given the broad reach of anthropology as the science of humankind, there are times when the subject fragments into specialisms and times when there is rapprochement. Rather than just seeing them as reactions to each other, it is perhaps better to say that both tendencies co-exist and that it is very...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Dunbar, Robin,
Gosden, Chris,
Hsu, Elisabeth,
Ingold, Tim,
Morphy, Howard,
Parkin, David,
Peers, Laura,
Rival, Laura,
Ulijaszek, Stanley J.,
Whitehouse, Harvey,
HerausgeberIn:
Parkin, David,
Ulijaszek, Stanley,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 16
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • List of contributors
  • Preface
  • Introduction: emergence and convergence
  • 1. Bioculturalism
  • 2. The biological in the social: evolutionary approaches to human behaviour
  • 3. Domesticating the landscape, producing crops and reproducing society in Amazonia
  • 4. The biological in the cultural: the five agents and the body ecologic in Chinese medicine
  • 5. On the social, the biological and the political: revisiting Beatrice Blackwood’s research and teaching
  • 6. Anthropological theory and the multiple determinacy of the present
  • 7. Holism, intelligence and time
  • 8. Movement, knowledge and description
  • 9. The evolution and history of religion
  • 10. The visceral in the social: the crowd as paradigmatic type
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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