Complexities : Beyond Nature & Nurture
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Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780226500232
- ISBN-10: 0226500233
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: June 2005
- Dimensions: 9.32 x 6.42 x 0.94 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.23 pounds
- Page Count: 330
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