Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial issues in anthropology
By: selected, edited, and with introductions by Kirk M. Endicott and Robert L. Welsch.
Contributors: Endicott, Kirk M.; Welsch, Robert Louis, 1950-
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Dubuque, IA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Anthropology.; Anthropology -- Moral aspects.
Other titles: Clashing views on controversial issues in anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Is race a useful concept for anthropologists?; title: Are humans inherently violent?; title: Did Neandertals interbreed with modern humans?; title: Did people first arrive in the new world after the last ice age?; title: Was there a goddess cult in prehistoric Europe?; title: Did prehistoric Native Americans practice cannibalism in the American Southwest?; title: Can apes learn language?; title: Does language determine how we think?; title: Should cultural anthropology model itself on the natural sciences?; title: Was Margaret Mead's fieldwork on Samoan adolescents fundamentally flawed?; title: Do native peoples today invent their traditions?; title: Is it natural for adopted children to want to find out about their birth parents?; title: Are San hunter-gatherers basically pastoralists who have lost their herds?; title: Do some illnesses exist only among members of a particular culture?; title: Is ethnic conflict inevitable?; title: Should the remains of prehistoric Native Americans be reburied rather than studied?; title: Did Napolean Chagnon's research methods and publications harm the Yanomami Indians?; title: Do museums misrepresent ethnic communities around the world?