There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; men and women are truly different in behavior, desires, and wiring. In an engaging and wide-ranging narrative Agustin Fuentes counters these pervasive and pernicious myths about human behavior. Tackling misconceptions about what race, aggression, and sex really mean for humans, Fuentes incorporates an accessible understanding of culture, genetics, and evolution requiring us to dispose of notions of "nature or nurture." Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields,...
There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; men and women are truly differ...
"Everyone who has anything to do with fieldwork should read this book. To my knowledge there is no other work, which so clearly demonstrates the kinds of ethical dilemmas that occur routinely in the field, in all their everyday, messiness...It will appeal to anyone working within anthropological or conservation based disciplines, but it will encourage scholars and students of virtually any discipline, even journalists, to think about the effects of their work. More, much more, this volume should be required reading for anyone who ever sits on an ethics committee." - Qualitative Research...
"Everyone who has anything to do with fieldwork should read this book. To my knowledge there is no other work, which so clearly demonstrates the ki...
Ethnoprimatology, the combining of primatological and anthropological practice and the viewing of humans and other primates as living in integrated and shared ecological and social spaces, has become an increasingly popular approach to primate studies in the twenty-first century. Offering an insight into the investigation and documentation of human-nonhuman primate relations in the Anthropocene, this book guides the reader though the preparation, design, implementation, and analysis of an ethnoprimatological research project, offering practical examples of the vast array of methods and...
Ethnoprimatology, the combining of primatological and anthropological practice and the viewing of humans and other primates as living in integrated an...