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Denying Biology
Shapiro, Warren; Linke, Uli
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Description for Denying Biology
Paperback. This work is an account of the human tendency to deny or minimize biology. It considers a wide variety of anti-biological systems and their relation to larger issues, particularly gender studies, and discusses a variety of expressions of the antithesis between human beings and natural processes. Num Pages: 254 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFSJ; PDA; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295.
We know that human beings are part of nature yet Philosophical systems around the world deny or minimize this fact. As the first book to take a systematic account of the universal human tendency to deny or minimize biology, this book considers a wide variety of these anti-biological systems and their relation to larger issues, particularly gender studies. Discussed in this book are a wide variety of expressions of the antithesis between human beings and natural processes in which the latter are denied, denigrated, or minimized. Contents: Introduction, Warren Shapiro; Sexual Imagery in Spanish Carnival, David D. Gilmore; Symbolic Reproduction ... Read more
We know that human beings are part of nature yet Philosophical systems around the world deny or minimize this fact. As the first book to take a systematic account of the universal human tendency to deny or minimize biology, this book considers a wide variety of these anti-biological systems and their relation to larger issues, particularly gender studies. Discussed in this book are a wide variety of expressions of the antithesis between human beings and natural processes in which the latter are denied, denigrated, or minimized. Contents: Introduction, Warren Shapiro; Sexual Imagery in Spanish Carnival, David D. Gilmore; Symbolic Reproduction ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761803218
SKU
V9780761803218
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About Shapiro, Warren; Linke, Uli
Warren Shapiro is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. Uli Linke is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the same university.
Reviews for Denying Biology
...valuable collection of essays about pseudoprocreation...an elegant treatment of Sherpa monasticism...Goodenough's concluding chapter is a model of its kind: lucid, summarizing, implication drawing.
American Anthropologist
...valuable collection of essays about pseudoprocreation...an elegant treatment of Sherpa monasticism...Goodenough's concluding chapter is a model of its kind: lucid, summarizing, implication drawing.
American Anthropologist
American Anthropologist
...valuable collection of essays about pseudoprocreation...an elegant treatment of Sherpa monasticism...Goodenough's concluding chapter is a model of its kind: lucid, summarizing, implication drawing.
American Anthropologist