Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait
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Köp båda 2 för 732 krPUBLISHERS WEEKLY Is friendship a transaction designed to smooth over our naturally brutish human nature? Or is it intrinsic to our being? Terrell, a leading anthropologist of Oceania and author of the seminal Prehistory in the Pacific Islands, offers a more complex answer... As a theory of friendship, Terrell's work is elegant.
John Edward Terrell, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard) has long been recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the peopling of the Oceania and the remarkable biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity of modern Pacific Islanders. He is also a pioneer in the study of global human biogeography, baseline probability analysis, and the application of social network analysis in archaeology and anthropology. Since 1971 he has been the curator of Oceanic archaeology and ethnology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago where he now holds the endowed Regenstein Curatorship of Pacific Anthropology established there in 2005. A strong voice for recognizing museums today as key players in global heritage management, he is currently working closely with Chicago's large Filipino-American community to foster the co-curation with them of Field Museum's outstanding early 20th century Philippines cultural collections. The author of more than 180 books, scientific papers, reports, and reviews, his book Prehistory in the Pacific Islands (Cambridge, 1986, paper 1988) is considered by many to be a classic study of human diversity in all its complexity. He has been called one of the best writers in anthropology today, someone with a keen and well-demonstrated commitment to writing that can be read for pleasure as well as content. He also has the distinction of being the resident kaitiaki (guardian) of the only 19th century Maori meeting house in the New World, Ruatepupuke II, now at the Field Museum but originally from Tokomaru Bay, Aotearoa (New Zealand) where it was first opened with great pomp and circumstance in 1881.
Contents: ; Part I. What Makes Us Human? ; 1. Being human ; 2. Baron von Pufendorf ; 3. Ghost theories ; 4. The secret lives of Lou, Laurence, and Leslie ; Part II. The Archaeology of Friendship ; 5. Suddenly all was chaos ; 6. A wimpy idea ; 7. In the footsteps of A. B. Lewis ; 8. Confronting the obvious ; 9. The archaeology of friendship ; 10. The sign of the sea turtle ; 11. Drawing conclusions ; Part III. Selfish Desires ; 12. Houston, we've had a problem ; 13. You can't get there from here ; 14. The wizard of Down House ; 15. The numbers game ; Part IV. The Social Baseline ; 16. Animal cooperation ; 17. The question of animal awareness ; 18. Babies and big brains ; 19. Mission impossible ; Part V. Social Being ; 20. Alone in a crowd ; 21. A state of mind ; 22. It's who you know ; 23. Bloodlust, fear, and other emotions ; Part VI. Principles To Live By ; 24. The lady or the tiger? ; 25. A kiss is just a kiss? ; 26. Friend or Facebook? ; 27. What was the Garden of Eden like? ; 28. The strength of weak ties ; 29. Meet me on the marae ; 30. Being in a family way ; Appendix ; Index