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From Primitives to Primates (Paperback)
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Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this
fascinating in-depth study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates how
input from ethnography and primatology has deeply influenced our
visions about the past from the 19th century to this day - often
far beyond the available evidence. Victorian scholars were keen to
look at contemporary Australian and Tasmanian aboriginals to
understand the enigmatic Neanderthal fossils. Likewise, today's
primatologists debate to what extent bonobos, baboons or chimps may
be regarded as stand-ins for early human ancestors. The belief that
the contemporary world provides 'living links' still goes strong.
Such primate models, Van Reybrouck argues, continue the highly
problematic 'comparative method' of the Victorian times. He goes on
to show how the field of ethnoarchaeology has succeeded in
circumventing the major pitfalls of such analogical reasoning. A
truly interdisciplinary study, this work shows how scholars working
in different fields can effectively improve their methods for
interpreting the deep past by understanding the historical
challenges of adjacent disciplines. Overviewing two centuries of
intellectual debate in fields as diverse as archaeology,
ethnography and primatology, Van Reybrouck's book is one long plea
for trying to understand the past on its own terms, rather than as
facile projections from the present. David Van Reybrouck (Bruges,
1971) was trained as an archaeologist at the universities of
Leuven, Cambridge and Leiden. Before becoming a highly successful
literary author (The Plague, Mission, Congo...), he worked as a
historian of ideas. For more than twelve years, he was co-editor of
Archaeological Dialogues. In 2011-12, he held the prestigious
Cleveringa Chair at the University of Leiden.
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