| Complexities: Beyond Nature & Nurture Contributor(s): McKinnon, Susan (Editor), Silverman, Sydel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0226500241 ISBN-13: 9780226500249 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: Recent years have seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms, and to dismiss cultural meaning and difference. Daily we read assertions that everything from disease to morality-not to mention the presumed characteristics of race, gender, and sexuality-can be explained by reference primarily to genetics and our evolutionary past. "Complexities" mobilizes experts from several fields of anthropology--cultural, archaeological, linguistic, and biological--to offer a compelling challenge to the resurgence of reductive theories of human biological and social life. This book presents evidence to contest such theories and to provide a multifaceted account of the complexity and variability of the human condition. Charting a course that moves beyond any simple opposition between nature and nurture, "Complexities" argues that a nonreductive perspective has important implications for how we understand and foster human potential. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Psychology |
| Dewey: 301 |
| LCCN: 2004020978 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6.4" W x 8.94" (1.01 lbs) 330 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Recent years have seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms, and to dismiss cultural meaning and difference. Daily we read assertions that everything from disease to morality--not to mention the presumed characteristics of race, gender, and sexuality--can be explained by reference primarily to genetics and our evolutionary past. Complexities mobilizes experts from several fields of anthropology--cultural, archaeological, linguistic, and biological--to offer a compelling challenge to the resurgence of reductive theories of human biological and social life. This book presents evidence to contest such theories and to provide a multifaceted account of the complexity and variability of the human condition. Charting a course that moves beyond any simple opposition between nature and nurture, Complexities argues that a nonreductive perspective has important implications for how we understand and develop human potential. |