wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology
ISBN: 9780761991144 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A strong advocate for anthropology as a science, Lawrence Kuznar reviews the recent challenges to this ideology from creationists and 'scientific' racists on one side and postmodernists, marxists and feminists on the other. Moreover, Kuznar provides a brief review of anthropology as a science, summarizes major theoretical works in anthropology and other fields on the science/humanism debate, and offers several important case examples from cultural anthropology and archaeology showing science in action. An interesting, provocative book for anthropologists and ideal for advanced undergraduate...
A strong advocate for anthropology as a science, Lawrence Kuznar reviews the recent challenges to this ideology from creationists and 'scientific' rac...
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378,43 zł |
Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy
ISBN: 9781594512872 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "A thought-provoking, stimulating volume on the past, present and future of cultural materialism that is both laudatory of Harris' research strategy and critical of it." Paul Shankman, University of Colorado One of the most important anthropologists of all time, Marvin Harris was influential worldwide as the founder of cultural materialism. This book accessibly analyzes Harris's theories and their important legacies today. The chapters explore cultural materialism's epistemology and its relation to rational choice theory, Darwinian social science, and population pressures. The authors assess...
"A thought-provoking, stimulating volume on the past, present and future of cultural materialism that is both laudatory of Harris' research strategy a...
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959,60 zł |
Ethnoarchaeology of Andean South America: Contributions to Archaeological Method and Theory
ISBN: 9781879621299 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Andean South America offers significant anthropological insights into highland and arid zone adaptations, including pastoralist economy and ecology, settlement patterns, site formation processes, tool manufacture, and the cultural meanings of landscapes. The 16 papers in this volume present detailed studies of economics and production, caravanning and trade, ceramic manufacture and use life, patterns of settlement and mobility among highland and lowland pastoralists and horticulturalists, taphonomy, and sacred landscapes. The epistomological foundations of ethnoarchaeology, archaeological...
Andean South America offers significant anthropological insights into highland and arid zone adaptations, including pastoralist economy and ecology, s...
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684,68 zł |
Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780759111097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This second edition of Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology arrives at just the right time, as new advances in science increasingly affect anthropologists of all stripes. Lawrence Kuznar begins by reviewing the basic issues of scientific epistemology in anthropology as they have taken shape over the life of the discipline. He then describes postmodern and other critiques of both science and scientific anthropology, and he concludes with stringent analyses of these debates. This new edition brings this important text firmly into the 21st century; it not only updates the scholarly debates but...
This second edition of Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology arrives at just the right time, as new advances in science increasingly affect anthropolog...
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323,53 zł |
From the Mind to the Feet: Assessing the Perception-To-Intent-To-Action Dynamic
ISBN: 9781780399706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The 12 essays in this volume examine the concept of intent in defense, security, and foreign-policy contexts. They provide operational and academic perspectives on measuring the intent of adversaries, including nation-states and nonstate actors, and understanding the relationship of intent to behavior. The essays apply the insights and methods of multiple disciplines-anthropology, psychology, political science, neuroscience, and others-to the study of intent, for which there is currently no coherent body of research. As Lt Gen Robert Elder, USAF, retired, notes, we are good at estimating an...
The 12 essays in this volume examine the concept of intent in defense, security, and foreign-policy contexts. They provide operational and academic pe...
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109,82 zł |
Ethnoarchaeology of Andean South America: Contributions to Archaeological Method and Theory
ISBN: 9781879621282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Andean South America offers significant anthropological insights into highland and arid zone adaptations, including pastoralist economy and ecology, settlement patterns, site formation processes, tool manufacture, and the cultural meanings of landscapes. The 16 papers in this volume present detailed studies of economics and production, caravanning and trade, ceramic manufacture and use life, patterns of settlement and mobility among highland and lowland pastoralists and horticulturalists, taphonomy, and sacred landscapes. The epistomological foundations of ethnoarchaeology, archaeological...
Andean South America offers significant anthropological insights into highland and arid zone adaptations, including pastoralist economy and ecology, s...
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248,71 zł |
Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy
ISBN: 9781594512889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "A thought-provoking, stimulating volume on the past, present and future of cultural materialism that is both laudatory of Harris' research strategy and critical of it." Paul Shankman, University of Colorado One of the most important anthropologists of all time, Marvin Harris was influential worldwide as the founder of cultural materialism. This book accessibly analyzes Harris's theories and their important legacies today. The chapters explore cultural materialism's epistemology and its relation to rational choice theory, Darwinian social science, and population pressures. The authors assess...
"A thought-provoking, stimulating volume on the past, present and future of cultural materialism that is both laudatory of Harris' research strategy a...
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373,41 zł |