Studies of the BioSocial Society – serie
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Ethics in the Field
CContemporary Challenges
Av Jeremy MacClancy, Agustín Fuentes
Inbunden, 2013
1921 kr
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In recent years ever-increasing concerns about ethical dimensions of fieldwork practice have forced anthropologists and other social scientists to radically reconsider the nature, process, and outcomes of fieldwork: what should we be doing, how, for whom, and to what end? In this volume, …
Understanding Conflicts about Wildlife
A Biosocial Approach
Av Catherine M. Hill, Amanda D. Webber m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1318 kr
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Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed and understood as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, a greater depth of analysis reveals that many instances of human-wildlife conflict are often better understood as people-people conflict, …
Substitute Parents
Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies
Inbunden, 2009
2123 kr
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From a comparative perspective, human life histories are unique and raising offspring is unusually costly: humans have relatively short birth intervals compared to other apes, childhood is long, mothers care simultaneously for many dependent children (other apes raise one offspring at a time), …
Health, Risk, and Adversity
Av Catherine Panter-Brick, Agustín Fuentes
Inbunden, 2008
1916 kr
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Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiological variation, environmental exposure to poor nutrition and disease, and social marginalization. This volume provides a unique perspective - a …
Centralizing Fieldwork
Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology
Av Jeremy MacClancy, Agustín Fuentes
Inbunden, 2010
1921 kr
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Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across …
Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective
Past Meets Present
Inbunden, 2010
1880 kr
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There are not many areas that are more rooted in both the biological and social-cultural aspects of humankind than diet and nutrition. Throughout human history nutrition has been shaped by political, economic, and cultural forces, and in turn, access to food and nutrition has altered the course and …
