Sean M Rafferty

Misanthropology

Science, Pseudoscience, and the Study of Humanity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Misanthropology: Science, Pseudoscience, and the Study of Humanity introduces students to key concepts in critical thinking across the four core branches of anthropology: cultural, linguistic, biological, and archaeological. It combines a critical analysis of anthropology as a field with current concepts in scientific skepticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781032231792
• ISBN-10: 1032231793
• Artikelnr.: 64103407

Autorenporträt

Sean M. Rafferty is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University at Albany, SUNY, USA

Inhaltsangabe

1: Bias and Fallacy in Anthropology and Beyond
2: Cultural Anthropology and the Invented Primitive
3: Ethnology vs. Pseudoethnology
4: Apes and Sign Language: Another "Clever Hans"?
5: Pseudolinguistics
6: Biological Anthropology and Pseudoscience: The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
7: Pseudoarchaeology and Ancient Aliens
8: Archaeology as the Handmaiden of Ideology
9: Science, Pseudoscience, and Anthropology