Series numbering extrapolated from list of previous titles on series title page. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: (Re)discovery of the strange and the familiar : theory and methods for a twenty-first-century biological anthropology / Sang-Hee Lee and Cathy Willermet -- Part I. The strange and the familiar : new landscapes and theoretical approaches. 1. Women in human evolution redux / Dänae G. Khorasani and Sang-Hee Lee ; 2. Hegemony and the Central Asian Paleolithic record : perspectives on Pleistocene landscapes and morphological mosaicism / Michelle M. Glantz ; 3. Anthopology now : how popular science (mis)characterizes human evolution / Marc Kissel ; 4. The strangeness of not eating insects : the loss of an important food source in the United States / Julie J. Lesnik ; 5. Methods without meaning : moving beyond body counts in research on behavior and health / Robin G. Nelson -- Part II. (Re)discovery of evidence : new thinking about data, methods, and fields. 6. (Re)discovering paleopathology : integrating individuals and populations in bioarchaeology / Ann L.W. Stodder and Jennifer F. Byrnes ; 7. Parsing the paradox : examining heterogeneous frailty in bioarchaeological assemblages / Sharon N. DeWitte ; 8. Seeing RED : a novel solution to a familiar categorical data problem / Cathy Willermet, John Daniels, Heather J.H. Edgar, and Joseph McKean ; 9. Paleoanthropology and analytical bias : citation practices, analytical choice, and prioritizing quality over quantity / Adam P. Van Arsdale ; 10. (Re)discovering ancient hominin environments : how stable carbon isotopes of modern chimpanzee communities can inform paleoenvironmental reconstruction / Melanie M. Beasley and Margaret J. Schoeninger ; 11. Discussion and conclusion : move forward, critically / Cathy Willermet and Sang-Hee Lee.
Summary:
"Biological anthropology is a diverse field, with countless research methods and techniques in different subdisciplines. This book takes a critical perspective to the current state of the field, exploring theory and practice in paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, and ecology. Contributors challenge how evidence is discovered, collected, and interpreted, and explain that researchers gain insights by defamiliarizing themselves from well-known methods and taking a different perspective - "making the familiar strange." The book covers how researchers' biases and assumptions affect the interpretation of topics such as human evolution and population movements; race, health, and disability; bodies and embodiment; and landscapes and ecology. A final chapter includes a critical assessment of new thinking about technology, in addition to the multilayered and complex nature of both research questions and evidence. This is an insightful text for researchers and graduate students in anthropology, biology, ecology, history, and philosophy of science"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; [83]
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