Misanthropology: Science, Pseudoscience, and the Study of Humanity

ISBN-13: 9781032231792 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 208 str.

Sean Rafferty

Opis

Misanthropology: Science, Pseudoscience, and the Study of Humanity introduces students to key concepts in critical thinking across the four core branches of anthropology: cultural, linguistic, biological, and archaeological. It combines a critical analysis of anthropology as a field with current concepts in scientific skepticism.

Spis treści

1: Bias and Fallacy in Anthropology and Beyond; 2: Cultural Anthropology and the Invented Primitive; 3: Ethnology vs. Pseudoethnology; 4: Apes and Sign Language: Another "Clever Hans"?; 5: Pseudolinguistics; 6: Biological Anthropology and Pseudoscience: The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis; 7: Pseudoarchaeology and Ancient Aliens; 8: Archaeology as the Handmaiden of Ideology; 9: Science, Pseudoscience, and Anthropology

O autorze

Sean M. Rafferty is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University at Albany, SUNY, USA