Dynamics of human biocultural diversity: a unified approach
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Sobo, Elisa Janine 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Routledge 2020
Ausgabe:2nd ed
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Beschreibung:Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Supplemental Case Materials -- Author -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- The Biocultural Approach -- Roadmap -- Key Features -- End Aims -- Acknowledgments -- Part I A Systems View of Human Adaptation -- Chapter 1 Anthropology and Complexity -- Where Did the Nature-Nurture Question Come From? -- Holistic Systems Thinking -- Ecosystems -- Complex Systems -- Studying Human Systems -- Chapter 2 Genetic Adaptation
Genes and Traits -- Evolutionary Change -- The Role of Natural Selection in Evolution -- Other Kinds of Selection -- Co-Evolution and the Importance of Within-Population Variation -- Examples of Natural Selection -- Balanced Polymorphism -- Chapter 3 Developmental Adjustment and Epigenetic Change -- Developmental Adjustment -- Epigenetics -- Transgenerational Modifications -- Vocabulary Shifts -- Paradigm Shifts -- What Makes a Square a Square? -- Chapter 4 Emergence of Culture and People Like Us -- Culture's Adaptive Function -- Culture's Features -- The Emergence of Our Species
Communication Becomes Necessary -- Ritual and the Cultural Revolution -- The Full Bloom of Culture -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Global Expansion, Human Variation, and the Invention of Race -- The Spread of Humanity -- Early Ideas about Human Variation -- Biological Race -- Racialization -- Ethnicity -- Geographic Clines -- Race's Social Significance and Self-Perpetuation -- One Race, Not Many -- Part II Socio-Political and Economic Factors -- Chapter 6 Foraging: A Human Baseline -- Nutrition Basics -- The Foraged Diet -- The Foraging Life -- Exceptions to the Rule -- Nourishing Babies -- Sleep
Morbidity and Mortality among Foragers -- Chapter 7 Agricultural Revolution: Another Great Divide -- Intensification -- Revolution at What Cost to Human Health? -- Industrialized Agriculture -- New Food Movements -- Intensification and Social Change -- Sociopolitical Diversity and Biocultural Diversity -- Chapter 8 Epidemics and Immunities -- The Immune System -- Infection -- Settlement and Sickness -- Disease Ecology -- Chapter 9 Political Economy of Health Disparities -- Epidemiological Variation -- Structural Violence -- Syndemics -- Sustainable Health -- Social Justice
Community-Driven, Culturally Responsive Change -- Populations Embody Their Social Positions -- Part III Meaningful Practices -- Chapter 10 Stress, Meaning, and Health -- The Stress Response -- Chronic Stress: Allostatic Load -- Stress in Cultural Context -- Stress Inequities: The Case of Race -- Individual versus Population Risk: Stereotypes versus Generalizations -- Cultural Consonance and Role Incongruity -- Culture-Bound Syndromes to Channel Stress -- Placebo Effect -- Chapter 11 Culture in Practice: Embodying Gender -- Why Study Culture in Practice? -- Culture in Practice -- Gendered Bodies -- Anomalies
Beschreibung:1 online resource (315 pages)
ISBN:9781138589728
1138589721
9780429957956
0429957955

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand! Volltext öffnen