Category: persons and theories

21/06/04

19:42:19, by Lorenz

. Categories: books, anthropology (general), persons and theories

Odyssey of an Anthropologist - new book about Malinowski

Daily Telegraph Michael Young's 690-page book is the first of two projected volumes. It takes Malinowski from his birth in Poland in 1884 to his return to England from the Trobriand Islands in 1920 - when his most famous work was yet to be written, an… more »

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10/06/04

19:37:20, by Lorenz

. Categories: Us and Them, persons and theories

Survival of the fittest? Survival of the nicest!

Washington University in St. Louis Are altruism and morality artificial outgrowths of culture, created by humans to maintain social order? Or is there, instead, a biological foundation to ethical behavior? "We believe that, instead of being geneticall… more »

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