Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology

Name: Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology
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ISBN: 9780195157031

ISBN-10: 0195157036

ISBN-13: 9780195157031

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jonathan Marks

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In The Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology , author Jon Marks presents an innovative framework for thinking about the major issues in the field with fourteen original essays designed to correlate to the core chapters in standard textbooks. Each chapter draws on and complements--but does not reconstitute (except for the sake of clarity)--the major data and ideas presented in standard texts. Marks explores such topics as how we make sense of data about our origins, where our modern ideas comes from, our inability to separate natural facts from cultural facts and values as we try to understand ourselves, and the social and political aspects of science as a culturally situated…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/24/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 9.21" wide x 5.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.880