Human Origins

Human OriginsHuman Origins brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other discipline has more relevant expertise to consider the emergence of humans as the symbolic species. Yet, social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. These contributions explore why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship

revolving around the hands of the experimenter and those of the artist

discussion and essay questions for each chapter

These essays

The Sometime Connection introduces a variety of theoretical perspectives on the connection between public opinion and policy and applies them to six social policy topics: abortion

Stories of School Yoga presents helpful resources and a nuanced

but lesser-known thinkers

European existentialisms offered Latin Americans transformative frameworks for thinking and writing about their own locales

Within the broader context of environmental public policy

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The saga of New York's push to build two minor-league baseball stadiums

Delineates Lacan's theory of the four discourses as a practical framework through which faculty can reflect on where their students are