National Science Library of Georgia

Local cover image
Local cover image
Image from Google Jackets

Evaluating evidence in biological anthropology : the strange and the familiar / edited by Cathy Willermet, Sang-Hee Lee.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropologyPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781108569125 (ebook)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 599.9 23
LOC classification:
  • GN60 .E93 2020
Online resources: Summary: Biological anthropology is a diverse field, with countless research methods and techniques in different sub-disciplines. This book takes a critical perspective to the current state of the field, exploring theory and practice in paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, and ecology. Contributors challenge how evidence is discovered, collected and interpreted, and explain that researchers gain insights by de-familiarizing themselves from well-known methods and taking a different perspective - 'making the familiar strange'. The book covers how researchers' biases and assumptions affect the interpretation of topics such as human evolution and population movements; race, health, and disability; bodies and embodiment; and landscapes and ecology. A final chapter includes a critical assessment of new thinking about technology, in addition to the multilayered and complex nature of both research questions and evidence. This is an insightful text for researchers and graduate students in anthropology, biology, ecology, history and philosophy of science.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
No physical items for this record

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Nov 2019).

Biological anthropology is a diverse field, with countless research methods and techniques in different sub-disciplines. This book takes a critical perspective to the current state of the field, exploring theory and practice in paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, and ecology. Contributors challenge how evidence is discovered, collected and interpreted, and explain that researchers gain insights by de-familiarizing themselves from well-known methods and taking a different perspective - 'making the familiar strange'. The book covers how researchers' biases and assumptions affect the interpretation of topics such as human evolution and population movements; race, health, and disability; bodies and embodiment; and landscapes and ecology. A final chapter includes a critical assessment of new thinking about technology, in addition to the multilayered and complex nature of both research questions and evidence. This is an insightful text for researchers and graduate students in anthropology, biology, ecology, history and philosophy of science.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Click on an image to view it in the image viewer

Local cover image
Copyright © 2023 Sciencelib.ge All rights reserved.