Clashing Views On Controversial Issues in Anthropology Endicott, Kirk M. creator editor Endicott, Kirk M. compiler, editor, writer of introduction Welsch, Robert Louis 1950- compiler, editor, writer of introduction text bibliography iau 2005 Third edition monographic eng

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xxvi, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Is race a useful concept for anthropologists? -- Are humans inherently violent? -- Did Neanderthals interbreed with modern humans? -- Did people first arrive in the new world after the last ice age? -- Was there a goddess cult in prehistoric Europe? -- Did prehistoric Native Americans practice cannibalism in the American Southwest? -- Can apes learn language? -- Does language determine how we think? -- Should cultural anthropology model itself on the natural sciences? -- Was Margaret Mead's fieldwork on Samoan adolescents fundamentally flawed? -- Do native peoples today invent their traditions? -- Is it natural for adopted children to want to find out about their birth parents? -- Are San hunter-gatherers basically pastoralists who have lost their herds? -- Do some illnesses exist only among members of a particular culture? -- Is ethnic conflict inevitable? -- Should the remains of prehistoric Native Americans be reburied rather than studied? -- Did Napoleon Chagnon's research methods and publications harm the Yanomami Indians? -- Do museums misrepresent ethnic communities around the world? selected, edited, and with introductions by Kirk M. Endicott and Robert L. Welsch Includes bibliographical references and index Text in English Anthropological ethics Anthropology Anthropologie Anthropologie Aspect moral Anthropologie physique Arch�ologie Ethnologie Controversen Culturele antropologie 306.7 0073102024 9780073102023 050121 7906