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Man the Hunter

Man the Hunter

Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic studies increasingly contribute substantial amounts of new data on hunter-gatherers and are rapidly changing our concept of Man the Hunter. Social anthropologists generally have been reappraising the basic concepts of descent fi liation residence and group structure. This book presents new data on hunters and clarifi es a series of conceptual issues among social anthropologists as a necessary background to broader discussions with archaeologists biologists and students of human evolution.

GBP 140.00
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Structured Worlds The Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Thought and Action

Structured Worlds The Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Thought and Action

Hunter-gatherer societies are constrained by their environment and the technologies available to them. However until now the role of culture in foraging communities has not been widely considered. 'Structured Worlds' examines the role of cosmology values and perceptions in the archaeological histories of hunter-fisher-gatherers. The essays examine a range of cultures - Mesolithic Europe Siberia Jomon Japan the Northwest Coast the northern Plains and High Arctic of North America - to show the role of conceptual frameworks in subsistence and settlement technology mobility migration demography and social organization. Spanning from the early Holocene period to the present day 'Structured Worlds' draws on archaeology and ethnography to explore the role of beliefs ritual and social values in the interaction between foragers and their physical and social landscape. Material culture animal bones and settlement patterns show that the behaviours of hunter-gatherers were shaped as much by cultural concepts as by material need. | Structured Worlds The Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Thought and Action

GBP 39.99
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Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany Perspectives from the Northern Temperate Zone

Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany Perspectives from the Northern Temperate Zone

Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany shows how archaeobotanical investigations can broaden our understanding of the much wider range of plants that have been of use to people in the recent and more distant past. The book compromises sixteen papers covering aspects of the archaeobotany of wild plants ranging across the northern hemisphere from Japan across America Europe and into the Near East. Sites examined span the Upper Palaeolithic to the recent past and demonstrate how such studies can extend our understanding of human interaction with plants throughout our history. | Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany Perspectives from the Northern Temperate Zone

GBP 175.00
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William Hunter and his Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds The Anatomist and the Fine Arts

William Hunter and his Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds The Anatomist and the Fine Arts

The eminent physician and anatomist Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) made an important and significant contribution to the history of collecting and the promotion of the fine arts in Britain in the eighteenth century. Born at the family home in East Calderwood he matriculated at the University of Glasgow in 1731 and was greatly influenced by some of the most important philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment including Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746). He quickly abandoned his studies in theology for Medicine and in 1740 left Scotland for London where he steadily acquired a reputation as an energetic and astute practitioner; he combined his working life as an anatomist successfully with a wide range of interests in natural history including mineralogy conchology botany and ornithology; and in antiquities books medals and artefacts; in the fine arts he worked with artists and dealers and came to own a number of beautiful oil paintings and volumes of extremely fine prints. He built an impressive school of anatomy and a museum which housed these substantial and important collections. William Hunter’s life and work is the subject of this book a cultural-anthropological account of his influence and legacy as an anatomist physician collector teacher and demonstrator. Combining Hunter’s lectures to students of anatomy with his teaching at the St Martin’s Lane Academy his patronage of artists such as Robert Edge Pine George Stubbs and Johan Zoffany and his associations with artists at the Royal Academy of Arts the book positions Hunter at the very centre of artistic scientific and cultural life in London during the period presenting a sustained and critical account of the relationship between anatomy and artists over the course of the long eighteenth century. | William Hunter and his Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds The Anatomist and the Fine Arts

GBP 38.99
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Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies Third Edition

Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies Third Edition

George Frison’s Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains has been the standard text on plains prehistory since its first publication in 1978 influencing generations of archaeologists. Now a third edition of this classic work is available for scholars students and avocational archaeologists. Thorough and comprehensive extensively illustrated the book provides an introduction to the archaeology of the more than 13 000 year long history of the western Plains and the adjacent Rocky Mountains. Reflecting the boom in recent archaeological data it reports on studies at a wide array of sites from deep prehistory to recent times examining the variability in the archeological record as well as in field analytical and interpretive methods. The 3rd edition brings the book up to date in a number of significant areas as well as addressing several topics inadequately developed in previous editions. | Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies Third Edition

GBP 36.99
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Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I) Vol I: History Evolution and Social Change

Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I) Vol I: History Evolution and Social Change

All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of these wide-ranging volumes in which internationally leading scholars consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa Asia Australia and North America and reflect theoretically on the hunter-gatherer condition. Volume 1: Hunters and Gatherers - History Evolution and Social ChangeVolume II: Hunters and Gatherers - Property Power and Ideology | Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I) Vol I: History Evolution and Social Change

GBP 130.00
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The Archaeology of Religion Cultures and Their Beliefs in Worldwide Context

The Archaeology of Religion Cultures and Their Beliefs in Worldwide Context

The new and updated edition of The Archaeology of Religion explores how archaeology interprets past religions offering insights into how archaeologists seek out the religious ritual and symbolic meaning behind what they discover in their research. The book includes case studies from around the world from the study of Upper Palaeolithic and hunter-gatherer religions to religious structures and practices in complex societies of the Americas Mesopotamia Egypt India and China. Steadman also includes chapters on the origins and development of key contemporary religions—Judaism Christianity Islam among others—to provide an historical and comparative context. Three main themes are threaded throughout the book. These main themes involve the intersection between cultural and religious structures (“religion reflects culture”) including the importance of environment in shaping a culture’s religion the role religion can sometimes play as a method of social control and the role religion can sometimes play as a key component in revitalizing a culture. Updated with new discoveries and theories and with two new chapters (Hunter-Gatherer Religions; and Cultures in East Asia) and with new sections on Neolithic Western Asia the book remains an ideal introduction for courses that include a significant component on past cultures and their religions. | The Archaeology of Religion Cultures and Their Beliefs in Worldwide Context

GBP 34.99
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High Possibility STEM Classrooms Integrated STEM Learning in Research and Practice

High Possibility STEM Classrooms Integrated STEM Learning in Research and Practice

This book offers a new research-based approach to STEM education in early elementary and middle years of schooling concentrating on building teacher agency and integrated approaches to teaching and learning in High Possibility STEM Classrooms. Author Jane Hunter presents a globally oriented contemporary framework for powerful Integrated STEM based on mixed-methods research data from three studies conducted in 14 schools in language-diverse disadvantaged and urbanized communities in Australia. Theory creativity life preparation public learning and contextual accommodations are all utilized to help educators create hands-on inquiry-led and project-based approaches to STEM education in the classroom. A set of highly accessible case studies is offered that places pedagogy at the center of practice – an approach valuable for researchers school leaders and teachers alike. Ultimately this text responds to the call for examples of what successful Integrated STEM teaching and learning looks like in schools. The book concludes with an evidence-based blueprint for preparing for less siloed and more transdisciplinary approaches to education in schools. Hunter argues not only for High Possibility STEM Classrooms but for High Possibility STEM Schools enriching the dialogue around the future directions of STEM STEAM middle leadership technological literacies and assessment within contemporary classrooms. | High Possibility STEM Classrooms Integrated STEM Learning in Research and Practice

GBP 39.99
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Mobility and Territoriality Social and Spatial Boundaries among Foragers Fishers Pastoralists and Peripatetics

Mobility and Territoriality Social and Spatial Boundaries among Foragers Fishers Pastoralists and Peripatetics

Territorial behaviour among various herders and hunter-gatherers has been discussed in earlier studies but this is the first time that a comparison of these three types of mobile populations has been attempted. The original papers presented in this volume discuss the conditions and problems of securing access to resources among pastoralists peripatetics and hunting gathering and fishing communities in Africa Asia Europe and the Middle East. A comprehensive introductory chapter places these empirical studies in a broader theoretical context of the behaviourial sciences. | Mobility and Territoriality Social and Spatial Boundaries among Foragers Fishers Pastoralists and Peripatetics

GBP 35.99
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William Hunter's World The Art and Science of Eighteenth-Century Collecting

William Hunter's World The Art and Science of Eighteenth-Century Collecting

Despite William Hunter's stature as one of the most important collectors and men of science of the eighteenth century and the fact that his collection is the foundation of Scotland's oldest public museum The Hunterian until now there has been no comprehensive examination in a single volume of all his collections in their diversity. This volume restores Hunter to a rightful position of prominence among the medical men whose research and amassing of specimens transformed our understanding of the natural world and man's position within it. This volume comprises essays by international specialists and are as diverse as Hunter's collections themselves dealing as they do with material that ranges from medical and scientific specimens to painting prints books and manuscripts. The first sections focus upon Hunter's own collection and his response to it while the final section contextualises Hunter within the wider sphere. A special feature of the volume is the inclusion of references to the Hunterian's web pages and on-line databases. These enable searches for items from Hunter's collections both from his museum and library. Locating Hunter's collecting within the broader context of his age and environment this book provides an original approach to a man and collection whose importance has yet to be comprehensively assessed. | William Hunter's World The Art and Science of Eighteenth-Century Collecting

GBP 42.99
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Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

First published in 1980. Paradise Lost was once a favourite text for family reading; today it is confined to the educational system which treats it as an object to be investigated rather than a subject that demands response. Professor Hunter writes inevitably for an audience of literary students but he invites them to consider Paradise Lost as a text that must be enjoyed before it can be explained. He understands the need to explain complexities but is mainly concerned with the onward flow of our engagement with an ancient poem. Milton’s narrative technique is explored as a system which both encourages and frustrates our native sense of story. His poetic power is shown to grow from our assent to its brilliant evocation of as if fictions. Milton is a master of audience manipulation of dramatic tension and intellectual paradox. These characteristics are described in the context of the task the poem sets itself to tell the untellable and describe what no man has ever seen. The power of Milton’s art is traced through his rehandling of Homer and Virgil and in his daringly individual fidelity to scripture. Professor Hunter does not try to smooth away the contradictions inherent in Milton’s ambition to write an English classical Christian epic. He rather stresses the contradictions as cues to a properly alert reading. And this is what the book aims at above all a response to Paradise Lost which is alert to poetry and unintimidated by scholarship.

GBP 29.99
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Regional Impacts of Resource Developments

Regional Impacts of Resource Developments

Originally published in 1984. Australia is a resource-rich country deriving a significant proportion of its export earnings from trade in these resources. At the same time the country is young sparsely populated beyond the coastal fringe particularly in the resource-rich areas and environmentally fragile. The consequences of resource exploitation in these areas have far-reaching policy implications. A range of these concerns is canvassed in this volume encompassing the views of policy-makers planners and academics. Five chapters address social and economic impacts ranging over manufacturing and tertiary industry immigration and labour markets employment and population and the provision of educational facilities. Many of these are seen in microcosm in the Hunter Valley New South Wales. Two contributions offer an international perspective one in another federal system – Canada – and one where Australian interests are participating in resource extraction – Papua New Guinea. The issues raised are fundamental to Australia's development in the 1980's and of importance to everyone connected with the development and planning of Australia's future. | Regional Impacts of Resource Developments

GBP 21.99
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Stone Age Economics

Stone Age Economics

Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively Sahlins radically revises traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies revealing them to be the original affluent society. Sahlins examines notions of production distribution and exchange in early communities and examines the link between economics and cultural and social factors. A radical study of tribal economies domestic production for livelihood and of the submission of domestic production to the material and political demands of society at large Stone Age Economics regards the economy as a category of culture rather than behaviour in a class with politics and religion rather than rationality or prudence. Sahlins concludes controversially that the experiences of those living in subsistence economies may actually have been better healthier and more fulfilled than the millions enjoying the affluence and luxury afforded by the economics of modern industrialisation and agriculture. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by David Graeber London School of Economics.

GBP 16.99
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Evidence: Law and Context

Evidence: Law and Context

Evidence: Law and Context explains the key concepts of evidence law in England and Wales clearly and concisely set against the backdrop of the broader political and theoretical contexts. The book focuses on the essential topics commonly found on Evidence courses covering both criminal evidence and civil evidence. It takes a contextual approach discussing how wider policy debates and societal trends have impacted upon the recent evolution of the law in order to provide students with an explanation as to how and why the law has developed. The fifth edition has been revised to include: coverage of R v Hunter 2015 and its impact on good character evidence; developments in procedures relating to young and vulnerable witnesses; and more in-depth coverage of key cases. Learning points summarise the major principles and rules covered and practical examples are used throughout the text to give better understanding as to how the technical rules are applied in practice. Self-test questions are included in the book helping students to test their understanding and prepare for assessment. Well written clear and with a logical structure throughout it contains all the information necessary for any undergraduate evidence law module.

GBP 35.99
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Animism in Southeast Asia

Animism in Southeast Asia

Animism refers to ontologies or worldviews which assign agency and personhood to human and non-human beings alike. Recent years have seen a revival of this concept in anthropology where it is now discussed as an alternative to modern-Western naturalistic notions of human-environment relations. Based on original fieldwork this book presents a number of case studies of animism from insular and peninsular Southeast Asia and offers a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon – its diversity and underlying commonalities and its resilience in the face of powerful forces of change. Critically engaging with the current standard notion of animism based on hunter-gatherer and horticulturalist societies in other regions it examines the roles of life forces souls and spirits in local cosmologies and indigenous religion. It proposes an expansion of the concept to societies featuring mixed farming sacrifice and hierarchy and explores the question of how non-human agents are created through acts of attention and communication touching upon the relationship between animist ontologies world religion and the state. Shedding new light on Southeast Asian religious ethnographic research the book is a significant contribution to anthropological theory and the revitalization of the concept of animism in the humanities and social sciences. | Animism in Southeast Asia

GBP 46.99
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The Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead Mystery Dances in the Magic Theater

The Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead Mystery Dances in the Magic Theater

The Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead is a multifaceted study of tragedy in the group’s live performances showing how Garcia brought about catharsis through dance by leading songs of grief mortality and ironic fate in a collective theatrical context. This musical literary and historical analysis of thirty-five songs with tragic dimensions performed by Garcia in concert with the Grateful Dead illustrates the syncretic approach and acute editorial ear he applied in adapting songs of Robert Hunter Bob Dylan and folk tradition. Tragically ironic situations in which Garcia found himself when performing these songs are revealed including those related to his opiate addiction and final decline. This book examines Garcia’s musical craftsmanship and the Grateful Dead’s collective art in terms of the mystery-rites of ancient Greece Friedrich Nietzsche’s Dionysus 20th century American music rooted in New Orleans Hermann Hesse’s Magic Theater and the Greek Theatre at Berkeley offering a clear prospect on an often misunderstood phenomenon. Featuring interdisciplinary analysis close attention to musical and poetic strategies and historical and critical contexts this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of Popular Music Musicology Cultural Studies and American Studies as well as to the Grateful Dead’s avid listeners. | The Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead Mystery Dances in the Magic Theater

GBP 38.99
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Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect

Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect

Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect Fifth Edition stands alone among screenwriting books by emphasizing that human connection though often overlooked is as essential to writing effective screenplays as conflict. This ground-breaking book will show you how to advance and deepen your screenwriting skills increasing your ability to write richer more resonant short screenplays that will connect with your audience. Award-winning writer and director Claudia Hunter Johnson teaches you the all-important basics of dramatic technique and guides you through the challenging craft of writing short screenplays with carefully focused exercises of increasing length and complexity. In completing these exercises and applying Johnson’s techniques and insights to your own work you will learn how to think more deeply about the screenwriter’s purpose craft effective patterns of human change and strengthen your storytelling skills. This 20th Anniversary Edition features 11 short screenplays including Academy Award winning Barry Jenkins' (Moonlight If Beale Street Could Talk) luminous short film My Josephine and an accompanying companion website that features the completed films and additional screenplay examples. The book has also been expanded and updated to include two new award-winning screenplays Killer Kart and The Great Wall of Vicky Lynn. and a brand-new chapter exploring the use of genre in the short film. An absolute must-have resource for students of screenwriting.

GBP 39.99
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Becoming Neolithic The Pivot of Human History

Becoming Neolithic The Pivot of Human History

Becoming Neolithic examines the revolutionary transformation of human life that was taking place around 12 000 years ago in parts of southwest Asia. Hunter-gatherer communities were building the first permanent settlements creating public monuments and symbolic imagery and beginning to cultivate crops and manage animals. These communities changed the tempo of cultural social technological and economic innovation. Trevor Watkins sets the story of becoming Neolithic in the context of contemporary cultural evolutionary theory. There have been 70 years of international inter-disciplinary research in the field and in the laboratory. Stage by stage he unfolds an up-to-date understanding of the archaeology the environmental and climatic evidence and the research on the slow domestication of plants and animals. Turning to the latest theoretical work on cultural evolution and cultural niche construction he shows why the transformation accomplished in the Neolithic began to accelerate the scale and tempo of human history. Everything that followed the Neolithic up to our own times has happened in a different way from the tens of thousands of years of human evolution that preceded it. This well-documented account offers a useful synthesis for students of prehistoric archaeology and anyone with an interest in our prehistoric roots. This new narrative of the first rapid transformation in human evolution is also informative to those interested in cultural evolutionary theory. | Becoming Neolithic The Pivot of Human History

GBP 35.99
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Humans and Hyenas Monster or Misunderstood

Humans and Hyenas Monster or Misunderstood

Humans and Hyenas examines the origins and development of the relationship between the two to present an accurate and realistic picture of the hyena and its interactions with people. The hyena is one of the most maligned misrepresented and defamed mammals. It is still despite decades of research-led knowledge seen as a skulking cowardly scavenger rather than a successful hunter with complex family and communal systems. Hyenas are portrayed as sex-shifting deviants grave robbers and attackers of children in everything from African folk tales through Greek and Roman accounts of animal life to Disney’s The Lion King depicting hyenas with a lack of respect and disgust despite the reality of their behaviour and social structures. Combining the personal in-depth mining of scientific papers about the three main species and historical accounts Keith Somerville delves into our relationship with hyenas from the earliest records from millennia ago through the accounts by colonisers to contemporary coexistence where hyenas and humans are forced into ever closer proximity due to shrinking habitats and loss of prey. Are hyenas fated to retain their bad image or can their amazing ability to adapt to humans more successfully than lions and other predators lead to a shift in perspective? This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the environmental sciences conservation biology and wildlife and conservation issues. | Humans and Hyenas Monster or Misunderstood

GBP 36.99
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Cultural Evolution The Empirical and Theoretical Landscape

Cultural Evolution The Empirical and Theoretical Landscape

Since the dawn of social science theorists have debated how and why societies appear to change develop and evolve. Today this question is pursued by scholars across many different disciplines and our understanding of these dynamics has grown markedly. Yet there remain important areas of disagreement and debate: what is the difference between societal change development and evolution? What specific aspects of cultures change develop or evolve and why? Do societies change develop or evolve in particular ways perhaps according to cycles or stages or in response to survival necessities? How do different disciplines—from sociology to anthropology to psychology and economics—approach these questions? This book provides complex and nuanced answers to these and many other questions. First the book invites readers to consider the broad landscape of societal dynamics across human history beginning with humanity’s origins in small nomadic bands of hunter gatherers through to the emergence of post-industrial democracies. Then the book provides a tour of several prominent existing theories of cultural change development and evolution. Approaches to explaining cultural dynamics will be discussed across disciplines and schools of thought from meme theories to established cumulative cultural evolutionary theories to newly emerging theories on cultural tightness-looseness. The book concludes with a call for theoretical integration and a frank discussion of some of the most unexamined structures that drive cultural dynamics across schools of thought. | Cultural Evolution The Empirical and Theoretical Landscape

GBP 34.99
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Human Hierarchies A General Theory

Human Hierarchies A General Theory

Human beings are hierarchical animals. Always and everywhere people have developed social ranking systems. These differ dramatically in how they are organized but the underlying causal mechanisms that create and sustain them are the same. Whether they are on the top or bottom of the heap people attempt to be superior to some other persons or group. This is the root of Melvyn L. Fein's thesis presented in Human Hierarchies: A General Theory. Fein traces the development of changes from hunter-gatherer times to our own techno-commercial society. In moving from small to large communities humans went from face-to-face contests for superiority to more anonymous and symbolic ones. Societies evolved from hunting bands where the parties knew each other through big-men societies chieftainships agrarian empires patronage chains caste societies estate systems and market-oriented democracies. Where once small groupings were organized primarily by strong forces such as personal relationships the now standard large groupings are more dependent on weaker forces such as those provided by social roles. Bureaucracies and professional roles have become prominent. Bureaucracies allow large-scale organizations to maintain control of people by limiting the potential destructiveness of unregulated tests of strength and by clarifying chains of command. Their rigidity and unresponsiveness requires that they be supplemented by professional roles. At the same time a proliferation of self-motivated experts delegate authority downward thereby introducing a more flexible decentralization. This analysis is a unique and significant advance in both the sociology and anthropology of stratification among humans. | Human Hierarchies A General Theory

GBP 51.99
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The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume II

The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume II

This volume draws on a unique dataset to answer pressing questions about human religiosity. Building upon the first volume in this series it presents results from the second phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) project. The second volume investigates key questions in the evolutionary and cognitive sciences of religion and highlights cultural variability and context specificity of diverse religious systems. Chapters draw on a dataset comprising 2 228 participants from 15 ethnographically diverse societies that stretch from Africa and India through Oceania to South America and include hunter-gatherers pastoralists horticulturalists subsistence farmers and wage laborers. Four chapters using the full dataset answer the following questions: What are the general predictors of commitment to supernatural agents? Is there a gender gap in religiosity? Does belief in punitive gods facilitates cooperation? Are supernatural agents implicitly associated with moral concerns? Chapters from individual field sites further explore the distinction between moralizing and local gods the potentially disruptive role of belief in local gods on cooperation with anonymous co-religionists and the relationship between belief in moralizing gods cooperation and differential access to material resources. Above these empirical studies the book also includes an informed discussion with specialists on the challenges of running such a large cross-cultural project and gives concrete recommendations for future projects. The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies human evolutionary biology psychology anthropology the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion Brain & Behavior. | The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume II

GBP 130.00
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Therapeutic Culture Triumph and Defeat

Therapeutic Culture Triumph and Defeat

For nearly half a century social scientists have made claims that there is a therapeutic ethos with extensive influence upon numerous aspects of American society. In Therapeutic Culture twelve authors address the implications of this ethos and its effects on a wide range of social institutions extending from the family to schools and operating in religious behavior and within the legal system. Has there been as the sociological theorist Philip Rieff argued in 1966 a triumph of the therapeutic? If so in what kinds of institutions has it been most pervasive? At the same time what aspects of modern culture has it replaced or defeated? Therapeutic Culture addresses these questions and raises others. Part 1 of this volume examines the emergence of the idea of authenticity as it defines the manipulation of emotions and behavior both in the United States and Great Britain. Contributors include Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn Frank Furedi Jonathan B. Imber and Alan Woolfolk. Part 2 illustrates specific cases of the effects of therapeutic culture within institutions including courts schools religious communities and the virtual community of the Internet. Contributors include James L. Nolan Jr. John Steadman Rice Felicia Wu Song and James Tucker. Part 3 extends the analyses of specific social institutions to the broader consequences that have resulted as a therapeutic ethos has taken root in contemporary life. Contributors include Digby Anderson Ellen Herman and James Davison Hunter. Part 4 is devoted to a previously unpublished essay by Philip Rieff whose significant influence can be seen in many of the contributions. Rieff revisits the highly controversial confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991 and offers ample evidence of the therapeutic uses of politics as well as the political manipulations available within a therapeutic culture to provide a fitting conclusion. This volume establishes a benchmark for further theoretical reflection and empirical research on the nature of therapeutic culture. It will be of interest to sociologists psychologists political scientists and cultural studies specialists. | Therapeutic Culture Triumph and Defeat

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