Race Culture And Evolution

Author : George W. Stocking
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226774947

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Race, Culture, and Evolution by George W. Stocking Pdf

"We have, at long last, a real historian with real historical skills and no intra-professional ax to grind. . . . All these pieces show the virtues one finds missing in . . . nearly all of anthropological history work but [Stocking's]: extensive and critical use of archival sources, tracing of real rather than merely plausible intellectual connections, and contextualization of ideas and movements in terms of broader social and cultural currents. Stocking writes very clearly; attacks important topics—race and evolution, the influence of scientism, the interaction between anthropology and other disciplines; and is methodologically very sophisticated. Though his main theme is the development of racialism and of opposition to it, his book bears on a range of issues very much alive in anthropology. . . . I would think no apprentice anthropologist ought to be pronounced a journeyman until he or she has absorbed what Stocking has to say."—Clifford Geertz, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Author : George W. Stocking
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1014846930

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Race, Culture, and Evolution by George W. Stocking Pdf

Author : George Ward Stocking (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : OCLC:16194951

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Race, Culture, and Evolution by George Ward Stocking (Jr.) Pdf

Author : George W. Stocking
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : OCLC:164496409

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Race culture and evolution by George W. Stocking Pdf

Author : Janis Faye Hutchinson
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015062558336

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Power, Race, and Culture by Janis Faye Hutchinson Pdf

The author examines becoming an anthropologist from the perspective of a black female who grew up in the South during the Civil Rights era. It intertwines her childhood experiences and socialization in a segregated South with her academic experiences and training in anthropology to examine race and reace relations in the United States. She specifically looks at the impact of the concept of race on her professional development and provides a modern outlook on diversity. --Publisher.

Author : Alex Mesoudi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226520452

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Cultural Evolution by Alex Mesoudi Pdf

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian theory can explain human culture. Covering a wide range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, Alex Mesoudi shows that human culture is itself an evolutionary process that exhibits the key Darwinian mechanisms of variation, competition, and inheritance. This cross-disciplinary volume focuses on the ways cultural phenomena can be studied scientifically—from theoretical modeling to lab experiments, archaeological fieldwork to ethnographic studies—and shows how apparently disparate methods can complement one another to the mutual benefit of the various social science disciplines. Along the way, the book reveals how new insights arise from looking at culture from an evolutionary angle. Cultural Evolution provides a thought-provoking argument that Darwinian evolutionary theory can both unify different branches of inquiry and enhance understanding of human behavior.

Author : Milford H. Wolpoff,Rachel Caspari
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fossil hominids
ISBN : 9780684810133

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Race and Human Evolution by Milford H. Wolpoff,Rachel Caspari Pdf

Race and Human Evolution shows how the debate over the "Eve" theory reflects a long history of theories about human origins and race that has been fraught with social and political implications.

Author : Stephen Shennan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520255992

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Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution by Stephen Shennan Pdf

This volume offers an integrative approach to the application of evolutionary theory in studies of cultural transmission and social evolution and reveals the enormous range of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead to productive empirical research, the touchstone of any worthwhile theoretical perspective. While many recent works on cultural evolution adopt a specific theoretical framework, such as dual inheritance theory or human behavioral ecology, Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution emphasizes empirical analysis and includes authors who employ a range of backgrounds and methods to address aspects of culture from an evolutionary perspective. Editor Stephen Shennan has assembled archaeologists, evolutionary theorists, and ethnographers, whose essays cover a broad range of time periods, localities, cultural groups, and artifacts.

Author : Julie V. Gottlieb,Thomas P. Linehan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857711854

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The Culture of Fascism by Julie V. Gottlieb,Thomas P. Linehan Pdf

The history and ideologies of the Far Right in Britain have been well documented, but there has been little understanding of the movement's cultural foundations. This text explores the cultural history of fascism and the Far Right and mines a seam of intense interest for both academics and students, as well as for the general reader. The book demonstrates that British fascism is essentially not just a political movement, but one that has as its goal the establishment of an all-embracing fascist culture in Britain. The contributions cover film, theatre, music, literature, the visual arts and the mass media. Striking examples of the material that they examine include fascist marching songs, "Aryan music", the creation of Mosley as a "matinee idol", even "fascist science", the cult of the "New Fascist Man" and fascist "masculinity" and "feminity". The authors demonstrate the persistence of the Far Right cultural forms from Mosley's British Union of Fascists within the present National Front and British National Party.

Author : Ashley Montagu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Race
ISBN : UCSC:32106007232769

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The Concept of Race by Ashley Montagu Pdf

Author : Cailin O'Connor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Equality
ISBN : 9780198789970

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The Origins of Unfairness by Cailin O'Connor Pdf

In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in these societies? In The Origins of Unfairness, philosopher Cailin O'Connor firstly considers how groups are divided into social categories, like gender, race, and religion, to address this question. She uses the formal frameworks of game theory and evolutionary game theory to explore the cultural evolution of the conventions which piggyback on these seemingly irrelevant social categories. These frameworks elucidate a variety of topics from the innateness of gender differences, to collaboration in academia, to household bargaining, to minority disadvantage, to homophily. They help to show how inequity can emerge from simple processes of cultural change in groups with gender and racial categories, and under a wide array of situations. The process of learning conventions of coordination and resource division is such that some groups will tend to get more and others less. O'Connor offers solutions to such problems of coordination and resource division and also shows why we need to think of inequity as part of an ever evolving process. Surprisingly minimal conditions are needed to robustly produce phenomena related to inequity and, once inequity emerges in these models, it takes very little for it to persist indefinitely. Thus, those concerned with social justice must remain vigilant against the dynamic forces that push towards inequity.

Author : C. W. Saleeby
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547124306

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Parenthood and Race Culture: An Outline of Eugenics by C. W. Saleeby Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Parenthood and Race Culture: An Outline of Eugenics" by C. W. Saleeby. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Robert Vitalis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501701870

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White World Order, Black Power Politics by Robert Vitalis Pdf

Racism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in the world in the early twentieth century and in turn affected the way that diplomatic history and international relations were taught and understood in the American academy. Evolutionary theory, social Darwinism, and racial anthropology had been dominant doctrines in international relations from its beginnings; racist attitudes informed research priorities and were embedded in newly formed professional organizations. In White World Order, Black Power Politics, Robert Vitalis recovers the arguments, texts, and institution building of an extraordinary group of professors at Howard University, including Alain Locke, Ralph Bunche, Rayford Logan, Eric Williams, and Merze Tate, who was the first black female professor of political science in the country.Within the rigidly segregated profession, the "Howard School of International Relations" represented the most important center of opposition to racism and the focal point for theorizing feasible alternatives to dependency and domination for Africans and African Americans through the early 1960s. Vitalis pairs the contributions of white and black scholars to reconstitute forgotten historical dialogues and show the critical role played by race in the formation of international relations.

Author : Carol C. Mukhopadhyay,Rosemary Henze,Yolanda T. Moses
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759122741

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How Real Is Race? by Carol C. Mukhopadhyay,Rosemary Henze,Yolanda T. Moses Pdf

How real is race? What is biological fact, what is fiction, and where does culture enter? What do we mean by a “colorblind” or “postracial” society, or when we say that race is a “social construction”? If race is an invention, can we eliminate it? This book, now in its second edition, employs an activity-oriented approach to address these questions and engage readers in unraveling—and rethinking—the contradictory messages we so often hear about race. The authors systematically cover the myth of race as biology and the reality of race as a cultural invention, drawing on biocultural and cross-cultural perspectives. They then extend the discussion to hot-button issues that arise in tandem with the concept of race, such as educational inequalities; slurs and racialized labels; and interracial relationships. In so doing, they shed light on the intricate, dynamic interplay among race, culture, and biology. For an online supplement to How Real Is Race? Second Edition, click here.

Author : Audrey Smedley
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015029284166

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Race In North America by Audrey Smedley Pdf

Few topics in the Western intellectual tradition have been subjected to as much scrutiny and analysis as the topic of race. In the eighteenth century, a prevailing belief in biologically exclusive and permanently unequal human groups, each with distinctive behavioral, moral, spiritual, and intellectual characteristics, led people to see biophysical and behavioral features as innate and immutable. In the nineteenth century, differences between whites, Indians, and Africans were magnified in the popular mind and in scholarly writings to the point that these groups were seen as separate species, justifying the preservation of "racial" slavery and the subsequent dehumanization of freed blacks. With the application in the late nineteenth century of the racial worldview to European peoples and the subsequent twentieth-century inhumanity and brutality of Nazi race ideology, the concept of race came under attack. Liberal ideology coupled with advances in science prompted criticism of "race" and efforts to eliminate the term from the lexicon of science. In a sweeping work that traces the idea of race through three centuries of North American history, Audrey Smedley shows race to be a cultural construct used variously and opportunistically throughout time, although the scientific record shows little common agreement on its meaning. Tracing the social and historical processes that helped shape the idea of race, Smedley argues that race was and is a folk worldview, fabricated as an existential reality out of elements of English cultural history and the conquest and enslavement of physically distinct populations. The schism between science and popular thought on race, which appeared in themid-twentieth century, continues today. If progressive scientists no longer accept the biological idea of race, will society eventually also reject it?