1st Edition
Misanthropology Science, Pseudoscience, and the Study of Humanity
By Sean M. Rafferty
Copyright 2023
194 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
194 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
194 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Misanthropology: Science, Pseudoscience, and the Study of Humanity introduces students to key concepts in critical thinking across the four core branches of anthropology: cultural, linguistic, biological, and archaeological. It combines a critical analysis of anthropology as a field with current concepts in scientific skepticism.
By deconstructing a range of global case studies in which... Read more
1: Bias and Fallacy in Anthropology and Beyond; 2: Cultural Anthropology and the Invented Primitive; 3: Ethnology vs. Pseudoethnology; 4: Apes and Sign Language: Another "Clever Hans"?; 5: Pseudolinguistics; 6: Biological Anthropology and Pseudoscience: The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis; 7: Pseudoarchaeology and Ancient Aliens; 8: Archaeology as the Handmaiden of Ideology; 9: Science, Pseudoscience, and Anthropology
Biography
Sean M. Rafferty is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University at Albany, SUNY, USA
