Between Primates and Primitives
Author | : Francis Moran |
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Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1993 |
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Author | : Francis Moran |
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Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1993 |
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Author | : David Van Reybrouck |
Publisher | : Sidestone Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9088900957 |
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.
Author | : David Van Reybrouck |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
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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 coeditor of Archaeological Dialogues. In 2011-12, he held the prestigious Cleveringa Chair at the University of Leiden.
Author | : David van Reybrouck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Analogy |
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Author | : David Van Reybrouck |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
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Author | : Edward Clodd |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2017-09-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781528147231 |
Excerpt from Primitive Man The anthropoid or man-like apes - the gibbon, orang-outang, chimpanzee, and gorilla - are man's nearest allies. Some of them resemble him more in one feature; some in another. The orang-outang has the most human-like brain; the chimpanzee has the most human-like skull and the more savage gorilla hasthe most human like feet and hands. Although the bones of a man cannot be mistaken for those of an anthro poid ape, the skeleton of each, bone for bone, are identical. If we compare the skull of a horse with a human skull, we find the same number of bones. And whether it be man, or ape, or horse, depends not on differences in the plan of the general skeleton, but in the proportions, as, for example, dealing only with the skulls of each, in the size of the brain -case and the face. For the. Comparisons of structure make clear that all difierences are of degree, not of kind. The lower apes vary more, especially in their brains, from the highest apes than these differ from man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : WILLIAM J. GOODE |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1951 |
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Author | : Donna J. Haraway |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1136608141 |
Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research.
Author | : Jane Spencer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-06-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 019259947X |
What did British people in the late eighteenth century think and feel about their relationship to nonhuman animals? This book shows how an appreciation of human-animal similarity and a literature of compassion for animals developed in the same years during which radical thinkers were first basing political demands on the concept of natural and universal human rights. Some people began to conceptualise animal rights as an extension of the rights of man and woman. But because oppressed people had to insist on their own separation from animals in order to claim the right to a full share in human privileges, the relationship between human and animal rights was fraught and complex. This book examines that relationship in chapters covering the abolition movement, early feminism, and the political reform movement. Donkeys, pigs, apes and many other literary animals became central metaphors within political discourse, fought over in the struggle for rights and freedoms; while at the same time more and more writers became interested in exploring the experiences of animals themselves. We learn how children's writers pioneered narrative techniques for representing animal subjectivity, and how the anti-cruelty campaign of the early 1800s drew on the legacy of 1790s radicalism. Coleridge, Wordsworth, Clare, Southey, Blake, Wollstonecraft, Equiano, Dorothy Kilner, Thomas Spence, Mary Hays, Ignatius Sancho, Anna Letitia Barbauld, John Oswald, John Lawrence, and Thomas Erskine are just a few of the writers considered. Along with other canonical and non-canonical writers of many disciplines, they placed nonhuman animals at the heart of British literature in the age of the French Revolution.
Author | : Shiho Main |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2008-08-07 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1134173717 |
Childhood Re-imagined considers Carl Jung’s psychological approach to childhood and argues that his symbolic view deserves a place between the more traditional scientific and social-constructionist views of development.