Complexities (Paperback)

Recent years have seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms, and to dismiss cultural meaning and difference. Daily we read assertions that everything from disease to morality-not to mention the presumed characteristics of race, gender, and sexuality-can be explained by reference primarily to genetics and our evolutionary past.
"Complexities" mobilizes experts from several fields of anthropology--cultural, archaeological, linguistic, and biological--to offer a compelling challenge to the resurgence of reductive theories of human biological and social life. This book presents evidence to contest such theories and to provide a multifaceted account of the complexity and variability of the human condition. Charting a course that moves beyond any simple opposition between nature and nurture, "Complexities" argues that a nonreductive perspective has important implications for how we understand and foster human potential.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2005
First published:	May 2005
Authors:	Susan McKinnon
Dimensions:	156 x 264 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-50024-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Promotions
LSN:	0-226-50024-1
Barcode:	9780226500249

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