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Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity - Elisa J. Sobo

Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity

A Unified Approach

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Buch | Softcover
292 Seiten
2020 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-58971-1 (ISBN)
CHF 76,75 inkl. MwSt
This lively text by leading medical anthropologist Elisa Sobo offers a unique, holistic approach to human diversity and rises to the challenge of truly integrating biology and culture.
This lively text by leading medical anthropologist Elisa J. Sobo offers a unique, holistic approach to human diversity and rises to the challenge of truly integrating biology and culture. The inviting writing style and fascinating examples make important ideas from complexity theory and epigenetics accessible to students. In this second edition, the material has been updated to reflect changes in both the scientific and socio-cultural landscape, for example in relation to topics such as the microbiome and transgender. Readers learn to conceptualize human biology and culture concurrently—as an adaptive biocultural capacity that has helped to produce the rich range of human diversity seen today. With clearly structured topics, an extensive glossary and suggestions for further reading, this text makes a complex, interdisciplinary topic a joy to teach. Instructor resources include an extensive test bank and a study guide.

Elisa J. Sobo is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at San Diego State University, California, USA. A sociocultural anthropologist specializing in health, illness, and medicine, she is Past President of the Society for Medical Anthropology, and currently Section Convener for the American Anthropological Association.

Preface 1. Anthropology and Complexity 2. Genetic Adaptation 3. Developmental Adjustment and Epigenetic Change 4. Emergence of Culture and People Like Us 5. Global Expansion, Human Variation, and the Invention of ‘Race’ 6. A Human Baseline 7. Agricultural Revolution: Another Great Divide 8. Epidemics and Immunities 9. Political Economy of Health Disparities 10. Stress, Meaning, and Health 11. Culture in Practice: Embodying Gender 12. Body Ideals and Outcomes 13. Kinship: So Relative Conclusion: Respecting Connections

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Zusatzinfo 7 Tables, black and white; 15 Line drawings, black and white; 80 Halftones, black and white; 95 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 553 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-138-58971-3 / 1138589713
ISBN-13 978-1-138-58971-1 / 9781138589711
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