1st Edition
The Trouble with Human Nature Health, Conflict, and Difference in Biocultural Perspective
1. Envisioning Evolution: Representations of Humanness and Causation 2. Origin Stories: The Co-Evolution of Human Anatomy and Sociality 3. Losses and Gains: Economic and Health Transitions Since the Neolithic Revolution 4. Thicker than Water: Blood, Milk, and Human Evolution 5. Risk and Responsibility: Power and Danger in Individualized Approaches to Preventive Health 6. Difference as Destiny: Race, Sex, and Culture 7. Choosers and Cheaters: The Sexual/Reproductive Conflict Hypothesis 8. Hoe and Plow, Pig and Cow: Work, Family, and Gender Stratification 9. Tale of Two-Spirits: Constructing Gender and Sexuality, Aptitudes and Inclinations 10. Savage Empathy: Sources of Competitiveness and Cooperativeness, Greed and Generosity 11. Why Stratify? Inequality and Interpersonal Violence 12. Peace and War: Patterns and Prevention of Violent Intergroup Conflict
Biography
Elizabeth D. Whitaker is an anthropologist specializing in human health, social history, and the history of scientific ideas. She teaches at the Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy, and has taught anthropology in the United States for many years.
