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Genetics and Philosophy

Paul E. Griffiths, Karola C. Stotz • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2013)

In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by discoveries and developments in genetics, a fast-evolving subject with important theoretical dimensions. In this rich and accessible book, Paul Griffi...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511744082

Genetics and Reductionism

Sahotra Sarkar • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1998)

With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something 'genetic'? This is t...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139173216

Genetics and the Origin of Species

Th. Dobzhansky • AIBS Bulletin (1952)

Genetics and the Origin of Species Get access Genetics and the Origin of Species. (3rd Edition). Dobzhansky Th.. 364 pp. Columbia University Press, 2960 Broadway, New York 27, N. Y.$5.00. AIBS Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 2, April 1952, Page 1...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aibsbulletin/2.2.14-b

Hobbes and Kant: Materialism and Rhetoric

Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel • Problemos (2024)

This article examines the subtle nuances of Hobbes’s and Kant’s perspectives on rhetoric and materialism, contextualising them within the broader framework of political philosophy. Despite both philosophers being critics of rhetoric, their ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15388/Problemos.2024.106.4

Anthropology Art and Aesthetics

(1992)

Abstract This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is the first in its field to be published for some time. In recent years a number of new galleries of non-Western art have been opened, many exhibitions ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198277330.001.0001

Anthropology and Voice

Amanda J. Weidman • Annual Review of Anthropology (2014)

Voice is both a set of sonic, material, and literary practices shaped by culturally and historically specific moments and a category invoked in discourse about personal agency, communication and representation, and political power. This rev...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030050

For An Anthropology Of Ethics And Freedom

James C. Laidlaw • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2002)

There cannot be a developed and sustained anthropology of ethics without there being also an ethnographic and theoretical interest – hitherto largely absent from anthropology – in freedom. A possible way of studying ethics and freedom compa...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.00110

Anthropological Linguistics

William A. Foley • Wiley eBooks (2020)

Anthropological linguistics is the study of language within the wider context of culture. It is concerned with how humans employ communicative culturally meaningful, or semiotic practices, as resources to forge large and small, transient or...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0031.pub2

Phenomenological Approaches in Anthropology

Robert Desjarlais, C. Jason Throop • Annual Review of Anthropology (2010)

This review explores the most significant dimensions and findings of phenomenological approaches in anthropology. We spell out the motives and implications inherent in such approaches, chronicle their historical dimensions and precursors, a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092010-153345

Anthropological Theory Today

Henrietta L. Moore (2000)

The Contributors. 1. Anthropological Theory at the Turn of the Century. (Henrietta L. Moore). 2. From Private Virtue to Public Vice. (James G. Carrier and Daniel Miller). 3. Clash of Civilizations of Asian Liberalism?:An Anthropology of the...

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THE CHRISTIANITY OF ANTHROPOLOGY*

Fenella Cannell • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2005)

This article critiques the way in which the discipline of anthropology has construed Christianity, arguing that too narrow and ascetic a model of Christianity has become standard and questioning the claims of the ‘secular’ social sciences t...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00239.x

A History of Anthropology

Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Finn Sivert Nielsen • Pluto Press eBooks (2013)

This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. Avoiding geographical bias, the authors provide summaries of ‘Enlightenment’, ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’ anthropology, from the cultural theories ...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183gzx9

The Anthropology of Food and Eating

Sidney W. Mintz, Christine M. Du Bois • Annual Review of Anthropology (2002)

▪ Abstract The study of food and eating has a long history in anthropology, beginning in the nineteenth century with Garrick Mallery and William Robertson Smith. This review notes landmark studies prior to the 1980s, sketching the history o...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.032702.131011

Anthropology, History, and Education

Immanuel Kant • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2007)

Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, had never before been tran...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511791925