Taking sides.

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[ 01. English Non Fiction ] Authors: Welsch, Robert Louis,--1950- | Endicott, Kirk M. Published by : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, (Boston :) Physical details: xxx, 391 p. ; 24 cm. Subject(s): Ethnology. Year : 2009 01. English Non Fiction Item type : 01. English Non Fiction
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issue 1. Is race a useful concept for anthropologists? -- Issue 2. Are humans inherently violent? -- Issue 3. Was there a pre-Clovis migration to the New World from Europe? -- Issue 4. Was the extinction of pleistocene megafauna in North America caused by climate change rather than over-hunting? -- Issue 5. Did prehistoric Native Americans practice cannabalism in the American Southwest? -- Issue 6. Can apes learn language? -- Issue 7. Should anthropologists and linguists be concerned about losing endangered languages? -- Issue 8. Should cultural anthropology stop trying to model itself on sciences? -- Issue 9. Was Margaret Mead's fieldwork on Samoan adolescents fundamentally flawed? -- Issue 10. Do native peoples today invent their traditions? -- Issue 11. Do men dominate women in all societies? -- Issue 12. Is gay marriage natural? -- Issue 13. Does the natural-supernatural distinction exist in all cutlures? -- Issue 14. Are San hunter-gatherers basically pastoralists who lost their herds? -- Issue 15. Do some illnesses exist only among members of a particular culture? -- Issue 16. Is ethnic conflict inevitable? -- Issue 17. Should the remains of prehistoric Native Americans be reburied rather than studied? -- Issue 18. Did Napoleon Chagnon's research methods and publications harm the Yanomami Indians? -- Issue 19. Do museums misrepresent ethnic communities around the world?