Taking sides.
By: selected, edited, and with introductions by Kirk M. Endicott and Robert L. Welsch.
Contributors: Endicott, Kirk M.; Welsch, Robert Louis, 1950-
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780073515229
Subjects: Ethnology
Other titles: Clashing views in anthropology; Anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Issue 1. Is race a useful concept for anthropologists?; title: Issue 2. Are humans inherently violent?; title: Issue 3. Was there a pre-Clovis migration to the New World from Europe?; title: Issue 4.  Was the extinction of pleistocene megafauna in North America caused by climate change rather than over-hunting?; title: Issue 5. Did prehistoric Native Americans practice cannabalism in the American Southwest?; title: Issue 6. Can apes learn language?; title: Issue 7. Should anthropologists and linguists be concerned about losing endangered languages?; title: Issue 8. Should cultural anthropology stop trying to model itself on sciences?; title: Issue 9.  Was Margaret Mead's fieldwork on Samoan adolescents fundamentally flawed?; title: Issue 10. Do native peoples today invent their traditions?; title: Issue 11. Do men dominate women in all societies?; title: Issue 12. Is gay marriage natural?; title: Issue 13. Does the natural-supernatural distinction exist in all cutlures?; title: Issue 14. Are San hunter-gatherers basically pastoralists who lost their herds?; title: Issue 15. Do some illnesses exist only among members of a particular culture?; title: Issue 16. Is ethnic conflict inevitable?; title: Issue 17. Should the remains of prehistoric Native Americans be reburied rather than studied?; title: Issue 18. Did Napoleon Chagnon's research methods and publications harm the Yanomami Indians?; title: Issue 19. Do museums misrepresent ethnic communities around the world?