Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity: A Unified Approach

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-61132-190-6
Verlag: LEFT COAST PR INC

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 181 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 751 g

This lively text offers a unique, holistic approach to human diversity for undergraduate courses in fields including anthropology, medicine, human ecology, and general education. Leading medical anthropologist Elisa Sobo rises to the challenge of truly integrating biology and culture. Her inviting writing style and fascinating examples make important new ideas from complexity theory and epigenetics accessible to undergraduates from all disciplines, regardless of academic background. Students learn to conceptualize human biology and culture concurrently—as an adaptive biocultural capacity that has helped to produce the rich range of human diversity seen today. With clearly structured topics, an extensive glossary and suggestions for further reading, this text makes a complex, interdisciplinary topic a joy to teach.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sobo, Elisa J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefacePart I: A Systems View of Human AdaptationChapter 1. Anthropology and ComplexityChapter 2. Genetic AdaptationChapter 3. Developmental Adjustment and Epigenetic ChangeChapter 4. Emergence of Culture and People Like UsChapter 5. Global Expansion, Human Variation, and the Invention of ‘Race’Part II: Socio-political and Economic FactorsChapter 6. Foraging: A Human BaselineChapter 7. Agricultural Revolution: Another Great DivideChapter 8. Epidemics: Human Settlement and SocialityChapter 9. Political Economy of Variation in Human HealthPart III: Meaningful PracticesChapter 10. Diversity in Mind-Body Relations: Stress, Meaning, and HealthChapter 11. Gender DiversityChapter 12. Variation in Body Ideals and OutcomesChapter 13. Kinship: So RelativeConclusion: Respecting ConnectionsAppendix: Selected WebsitesGlossaryReferencesIndexAbout the Author

Über Autor(innen)

Elisa J. Sobo is Professor of Anthropology at San Diego State University, USA.