Wiktor Stoczkowski

Explaining Human Origins

Myth, Imagination and Conjecture

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues the influence of Western folk ideas on human origin theories from the nineteenth century onwards.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9780521657303
• ISBN-10: 052165730X
• Artikelnr.: 21639210

Autorenporträt

Wiktor Stoczkowski (b.1959) was trained as a prehistoric archaeologist and ethnologist and, later, as an historian of science. He is lecturer in anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, is director of Groupe de recherches sur les savoirs (EHESS) and research member of Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale. His publications include Anthropologie naive, anthropologie savante (1994), Aux origines de l'humanite: Anthologie (1996), and Des Hommes, des extraterrestres et des dieux (1999), and numerous articles.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Prehistory and the conditioned imagination
3. Anthropogenesis and science
4. In search of causes
5. A double game.