Evaluating Evidence in Biological Anthropology: The Strange and the Familiar

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Cathy Willermet (Central Michigan University) Sang-Hee Lee (University of California, Riverside)

Evaluating Evidence in Biological Anthropology

The Strange and the Familiar

Cathy Willermet (Central Michigan University), Sang-Hee Lee (University of California, Riverside)

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Cambridge University Press
14 November 2019

Physical anthropology & ethnography; Philosophy of science; Evolution; Primates

Series: Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology

Biological anthropology is a diverse field, with countless research methods and techniques in different sub-disciplines. This book takes a critical perspective to the current state of the field, exploring theory and practice in paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, and ecology. Contributors challenge how evidence is discovered, collected and interpreted, and explain that researchers gain insights by de-familiarizing themselves from well-known methods and taking a different perspective - 'making the familiar strange'. The book covers how researchers' biases and assumptions affect the interpretation of topics such as human evolution and population movements; race, health, and disability; bodies and embodiment; and landscapes and ecology. A final chapter includes a critical assessment of new thinking about technology, in addition to the multilayered and complex nature of both research questions and evidence. This is an insightful text for researchers and graduate students in anthropology, biology, ecology, history and philosophy of science.

Edited by: Cathy Willermet (Central Michigan University), Sang-Hee Lee (University of California, Riverside)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 252mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9781108476843
ISBN 10: 1108476848
Series: Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 14 November 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cathy Willermet is Professor of Anthropology at Central Michigan University and Research Associate at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. Sang-Hee Lee is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Riverside, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Her book Close Encounters with Humankind (2018) won an American Anthropological Association (AAA) book award.

Reviews for Evaluating Evidence in Biological Anthropology: The Strange and the Familiar

'This edited volume critically examines how practitioners of biological anthropology apply methods, interpret evidence, and produce established knowledge … The opening five chapters are dedicated to theoretical and philosophical issues. Some themes have been discussed for decades, such as how women are portrayed in evolution and how popular science mischaracterizes human evolution, while others are newly emerging, such as the question of why insects are not eaten more widely on a global scale. The last five chapters present new approaches to data analysis and methods. These include contributions on disability and care in paleopathology, the osteological paradox in bioarchaeology, the incompleteness of fossil evidence, and the application of stable isotope studies for interpreting past environments.' T. Harrison, Choice